On Monday 13 October 2003 09:06 pm, Mark K. Kim wrote: > 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
On this topic, does anyone have any experience with the wintv PVR card? I was considering getting that one to play around with a bit... Mike -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Wenk _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech