I think the driver needs to support saving videos. Assuming it does, run xawtv with -noxv option, 'cuz it can't save videos when the video is coming through the xvideo extension. Then select "Record Movie" from the menu, then change "movie driver: multiple image files" to one of the valid movie formats. Supply the "movie/images filename", then click "start/stop recording." That works for me but I don't use hauppauge so...
Good luck! -Mark On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all, > > i owned a microsoft OS for a few weeks before switching to linux. in > those few weeks, i bought a hauppauge wincast TV card. it worked > marginarlly well, but the driver had "issues". > > anyway, i installed linux soon after and completely forgot about the > card, giving up on it ever being supported by linux. that was back in > the redhat 5.1 days, and supported hardware was ... sparse. > > anyway, i recently came across the card and did some research. it's now > supported by linux! hooray! after... > > reading ~linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv > recompiling the kernel > figuring out how to connect the card to my soundcard > playing with sound settings > hooking the card up to my VCR > > i got the card to work. it took a bit long to get working under linux, > but it's much less flakey. the windows driver crashed very often, > making the card painful to use (one of the reasons why i forgot about > the card). > > anyway, i want to put some of my old VCR tapes onto hard drive and > perhaps eventually burn them to DVD. > > > has anybody ever done this? i can use xawtv to watch my tapes, but for > some reason, it doesn't want to record. it refuses to record the movie > to disk (although i can get screenshots). > > i'm about to go to freshmeat, but if anybody does this kind of thing, > i'd like to hear what you use and about your experiences with this kind > of software. i'm a TOTAL newbie with video on linux, but i'd like to > get acquainted with it. > > thanks! > pete > > > -- > GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg > GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Mark K. Kim http://www.cbreak.org/ PGP key available on the website PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech