I want to get my digital vcr working again but I am stumped on where to go next for troubleshooting. It all went wrong since I left Mdk 9.0 and did a fresh install of Mdk 9.2. I previously had a whole load of scripts I could just call up via cron to record various programs from my tv card.
I am running 9.2 and uninstalled all xawtv and streamer related files due to having no luck getting anything to record using streamer from the console. After installing the latest xawtv-3.9 files and also streamer I once again find I cannot record anything from the TV card. I can watch TV with sound fine in xawtv. I issue the following command from a console: streamer -o "/drive1/magnet/vcr/testrecording.avi" -F stereo -f mjpeg -r 25 -s 320x240 -t 0:05 -j 80 -n pal ...this should record a 5 second clip of video in avi format but no such file is created, so I'm assuming that streamer is not executing correctly but is also giving no clues as to what the problem might be as a <ctrl-c> just returns me to a command prompt as that is the only way to escape the command. This also leaves the sound running in the background and the only way to stop that is to start xawtv and then close the program down. Hope some of you can point me in the right direction with this as I really miss my DVCR :( magnet :)
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