Thanks for the compliments on the Black Mark video.
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and LiVES 1.3.10 I have a lot of footage on
old VHS, Pro-Beta and Umatic formats that I would like to digitize and
use. I have been trying to use my Hauppauge PVR 500 card to capture the
analog video. First the good news- the Audio side of the card, although
not offficially supported by LiVES, works just fine. No need to patch
things through, or around. You may need to add "video capture" to your
audio inputs for ALSA. Mine was already set so. Now the not so good
news. Video capture is jumpy, jerky and pixellated from time to time.
Seems a little less so if you open the PVR as a stream/location; rather
than a file. I think I got some improvement by trying other encoding
options, and larger streaming bandwitdth as well. Better, but still not
really watchable.. I think that the issue is more with mplayer, not
LiVES. Video playback is much better with ffplay than mplayer. Also my
comp will only open the output of the demodulator, and no composite.
This again is not so much a problem with LiVES, but with the way Ubuntu
handles this hardware. It looks like there are locations for the output,
but nothing can open them. Demodulated RF shows up as /dev/video0
and.../video1. there are four other .../video locations in /dev/....
Maybe I just need a little better idea what to do with all the options.
So if the issues don't lie within LiVES why am i putting this here?
I am hoping there is someone of use who has had similar issues and
resolved them or is a little savvy about getting the comp. to play nice
with the PVR. P.S. I haven't had much luck with mythtv, and I don't need
all the bells and whistles. The PVR puts out MPEG; Maybe just something
for the command line to put the output of ffplay to a file. Then it
could open file with LiVES, just like all the other video files.
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