From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:61364 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754291Ab0EBF2N (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 May 2010 01:28:13 -0400 Received: by pva4 with SMTP id 4so82799pva.19 for ; Sat, 01 May 2010 22:28:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BDD0D66.5070709@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 15:28:06 +1000 From: vincent.mcintyre@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab CC: Randy Dunlap , linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] preferred video apps? References: <20100430095721.b1da05af.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <4BDB7A5B.7070204@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4BDB7A5B.7070204@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 1/05/10 10:48 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Please, _do_not_ reply privately ;) > I've found VLC useful for testing reception quality "by eye", though it's not obvious how to force usage of a particular tuner. I am pretty sure it can record. Also '{c,s,t}zap' ow w-zap are helpful for quick tests of basic functionality like tuning, and with the signaltest.pl script ( http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Testing_reception_quality) I use MythTV in 'production' but I find it a bit clumsy for testing with. Cheers Vince