What sound /capture card do you have?
--Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:12 PM
Subject: [V4L] XawTV - streamer
> Hi, a few days ago, a little discussion came up about using XawTV's
package
> streamer for recording medium/long movies.
>
> I use xawtv for watching TV since I brought my TV card, and it was my
first
> try for record--no good enough. Synchronization was terrible, and it
looses
> too many frames.
>
> I search for more reasoable options, and ended with the
kernel-2.4/bttv2/mp1e
> option, which works. Some. Almost.
>
> The thing is, mp1e system streams are encoded in real time, reason why the
> result requires to have a high bitrate for keep good quality, and then the
> conversion to another bitrate is time-consuming, and the final quality is
not
> as good as I want. The reencoding is because my last goal is to produce
home
> VCDs.
>
> So, when I saw the mention of streamer I think "but that thing sucks for
> record!".
>
> But I recently decided to give it a try, and I get a very cool surprise. I
> use kernel-2.4/bttv2/streamer, and the command line is:
>
> streamer -s 352x240 -am -r 15 -t 20000 -f avi15 -o movie.avi
>
> I have no frame loss, the video/audio is perfectly synchronized, the CPU
> isn't on his knees, and the files are HUGE (which is not so mouch trouble;
> I'm going to buy one of those 80-Gig HDs). BTW, I can use 24 frames/sec
and
> avi24 as format, but then the video is 2x faster than the audio.
>
> I need now advice in avi-editing tools (command line is better, but of
> course), and avi->mpeg[12] conversion tools. I got almost any software
> related to V4L (qdvt, lavtools, mjpegtools, etc.), so I really only need
> "histories of succes/failure" with the tools.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Canek
> --
> Anything is possible, unless it's not.
>
>
>
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