[pvrusb2] xawtv recording?

[xavier.gnata at free.fr]

> The cvs versions of xawtv have not migrated all the functions over from
> the stable releases (ie. recording).  (I believe this info is accurate.
> See the release notes on the cvs versions or the website for specifics.)

Ok but a new entry has appear is cvs version "Start stop recording".
The GUI must have been updated before the real implementation of this function
in CVS version. I hope we will have recording working in xawtv cvs...one day :)


> For recording, all you really have to do is:
>
> $ cat /dev/v4l/video0 > recorded.mpg

Yep it works without problem.

> For timed recordings, grab one of the latest versions of Mythtv.  This
> gives you a pvr type interface for scheduling recordings using an on
> screen "Program Guide" along with the ability to automatically transcode
> recordings.
>
> It does take a little time to configure mythtv and be able to work it,
> but the benefits do pay-off well with using mythtv!


mythtv looks great now :) I have to find some time to instll it on debian.
Is there any tutorial to do so?


Xavier.

> On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 21:06 +0100, xavier.gnata at free.fr wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > New xawtv CVS snapshots work very well with pvrusb2.
> > That is great because there is no other small TVC application able to read
> mpeg2
> > flux (mythtv is big...).
> > xawtv now seems to provide a record function. Whoua is would be great but I
> was
> > not able to record anything with it. After lauchning xawtv in a shell, I
> get no
> > error message when trying to use this record function...nothing happends :(
> > I will have to read the code to understand that... Did anyone allready try
> that?
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > Xavier.
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