Thanks Keith. Actually, i've made some progress. I'm now able to create AVI movies from the live camera stream, however they don't seem to have any sound (just a lot of white noise). I'm actually using 'streamer' which comes with xawtv (surprisingly, since xawtv seems to refuse to record AVI movies from its GUI front end).
I'm working on getting mjpegtools installed, but it seems to have a list of dependencies longer than KDE :) Anyhoo, which version of mjpegtools are you using? I tried to build the 'unstable' 1.6.0, but it kept bombing out during the compile. So now i'm concentrating on the stable 1.4.x instead. At any rate, this site seems to have alot of really kewl SxS-like material: http://machineofthemonth.org/articles/index.html including instructions on how to create high quality VCD's under Linux. On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Keith Antoine wrote: > On Sunday 21 April 2002 02:44, you wrote: > > Ahh, this is where I am at the moment, so maybe I can return the favour. > I have been using a pinnacle Rave pro and started with Streamer that > comes with Xawtv, rapidly gave this the flick as its VERY limitted and am > now using the mjpegtools lavrec to record, far more flexible. BTW the > linuxvideoStudio that I am in troublw with is gui for mjpegtools. Most of the > software defaults to an assumption that you have a mjpeg card, so I have to tell it : > > lavrec -f a -n 40 -i t -g 352x288 -q 80 -s -l 80 -R l --software-encoding >/backup/movies/test.avi > > Withe the tools one can also tell it to record from line in, iT tells it to look for >tuner input. > I got mine working for the first time properly last night with the above script. > No dropped frames and clean audio. > > So what software are you using for capture, there are many out there and > over the past 4 months I have used most of them., even mainactor will do > a good capture. There is another bttv style prog for cards too called Taztv > which might do the camera too. I believe that most capture software will > work with cameras if they follow the bttv std. > > When I have finished and can capture from a gui and then edit and > play with the reults, put it down to a cdr and watch it on either computer or DVD >player > then I'll be doing a complete SxS, once again. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
