From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: newbies question about tv Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:30:54 -0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20031031072020.01f57d60@celine> References: <20031031084737.53477fdb.c.lina@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20031031084737.53477fdb.c.lina@gmx.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: c.lina@gmx.net, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org At 08:47 AM 10/31/2003 +0100, c.lina@gmx.net wrote: >Hi all, > >I am a *real* newbie to linux, so please have mercy .... > >I have a tv-card and watching tv with motv works fine. Is there a tool >with which I can record shows and later watch the recorded shows? >(I have suse8.0) Many, but the details depend on which TV-capture card you have (and, a tiny bit, whether you are in NTSC or PAL country - some recording apps don't handle the 29.97/fps frame rate of NTSC properly) and what video-out card you have (and if you are doing video out to a monitor or a TV). Applications to check out for recording include avirec, vcr, ffmpeg, mencoder, and a few others that I cannot recall right now These all work fine with any TV card that uses the kernel's bttv driver. I use vcr myself. The main applications for playback are xine and mplayer. There is also aviplay and, probably, a few others. Their main need is an X driver that supports XVideo (or a really fast CPU, so that xshm can work without dropping frames) ... this is different (I think) from motv's screen display (I know xawtv is different, and I think motv is too), so don't assume you have this part working just because real-time TV watching works for you. The most developed record-and-playback application I know of is MythTV. There is also FreeVo, which I've heard of but never looked at. MythTV works with both bttv-based cards and cards with hardware encoding that use the ivtv kernel driver. If your distro doesn't include some of these apps (I use Debian, not SuSE, so don't know offhand what SuSE includes), you can track down the home sites of these projects through Google. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs