Re: Problem getting sensible video out of Hauppauge HVR-1100 composite

2014-01-20 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 19/01/14 17:54, Steven Toth scribbled ... It doesn't have a MPEG hardware compressor like the 350, you are reading raw pixel data (160Mbps) from the device node. Use an application that renders raw video data, such as TVTime. Ah, OK, thanks, I managed to miss that. I can get

Re: Problem getting sensible video out of Hauppauge HVR-1100 composite

2014-01-20 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Neil Bird gn...@fnxweb.com wrote: But, flip me, it's spewing 800 MB+ for a minute's worth of video. That'd be ~48GB for an hour's TV (the intention is to use this for a MythTV PVR). Am I likely to be able to do anything about that? Even with

Re: Problem getting sensible video out of Hauppauge HVR-1100 composite

2014-01-20 Thread Steven Toth
It doesn't have a MPEG hardware compressor like the 350, you are reading raw pixel data (160Mbps) from the device node. Use an application that renders raw video data, such as TVTime. Ah, OK, thanks, I managed to miss that. I can get a picture out of it by using vlc's open-device. So

Re: Problem getting sensible video out of Hauppauge HVR-1100 composite

2014-01-20 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 20/01/14 18:34, Steven Toth scribbled ... Generally not a good idea to do what you're doing. Generally a good idea to use a card with hardware compression features for a myth DVR. Yeah; I'd spent so long trying to find a card with an s-video input that was likely to work

Re: Problem getting sensible video out of Hauppauge HVR-1100 composite

2014-01-20 Thread Steven Toth
S-video requirements are a dying breed, unfortunately. Don't suppose you know of any? I see the Hauppauge HVR-2200 does, but it looks like the drivers for that are a bit too “fresh” for me to be able to risk another blind purchase (and may require kernel 3.2+, where I'm on SL6 with

Re: Problem getting sensible video out of Hauppauge HVR-1100 composite

2014-01-20 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 20/01/14 18:46, Steven Toth scribbled ... I'd backport the HVR2200 driver into 2.6.32 (it may already exist with analog features in .32 btw) and go with a 2200. Hah, not my first choice :) -- [phoenix@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature [phoenix@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No

Problem getting sensible video out of Hauppauge HVR-1100 composite

2014-01-19 Thread Neil Bird
I'm in the UK (PAL), have a Hauppauge HVR-1100 on Scientific Linux6: 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.i686 libv4l-0.6.3-2.el6.i686 v4l-utils-0.9.0.git5f24b816-2.el6.i686 ivtv-firmware-20080701-20.2.noarch Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1120 DVB-T/Hybrid [card=156,autodetected] input: saa7134 IR (Hauppauge WinTV-HVR

Re: Problem getting sensible video out of Hauppauge HVR-1100 composite

2014-01-19 Thread Steven Toth
I set everything I know of up OK, but when I access /dev/video0 I get a garbled pink MPEG file (cat to a file, then mplayer to test). The DVB-T aspect of is works fine (tested using vlc). It doesn't have a MPEG hardware compressor like the 350, you are reading raw pixel data (160Mbps) from