fedora-list Digest, Vol 16, Issue 10

[James T. Carver]

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 10:00 pm, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:26:44 -0800
> From: "James T. Carver" <jtcarver at skinartz.com>
> Subject: Re: TV Cards and Video capture
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 06:28 pm, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
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> > Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:34:03 -0400
> > From: "Tom W." <tom.wilkinson at weeklyzone.com>
> > Subject: TV cards and capture
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> > Can I expect to be able to watch and record television under Fedora Core
> > 3 as easily as under a Windows system?
> > I can't get KDE to work, as it says it needs 8.4 or higher for my tv
> > card (MSI tv at anywhere). When I try and install a higher version, there
> > is an endless amount of dependencies to find and get.
> >
> > What is the best program to use?
> >
> > I have tried tvanytime, but am getting a green picture.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Tom
>
> Watching TV and recording video, that is something that I have not had much
> luck with either, are you trying to use kdetv ? you might try looking at
> the BTTV howto page, as it is not really a simple process.  Make sure that
> your card is supported withing the bttv kernel driver on the howto page
> they have a pretty comprehensive listing of the cards that are supported.
>  then you have to make the actual device nodes,  and since Fedora core uses
> udev to create the nodes, you are going to have to write the rules for udev
> to create the right device nodes. I think that kdetv wants to use the
> /dev/video or dev/video0 . As far as capturing goes, the only decent video
> capture program is called cinelerra, as none of the tv programs I have come
> across will actually do any video capture, they all just do stills, which
> doesn't do much good when you are trying to record video.....
>
> James

Sorry... I had forgotten about mythtv... you can get the rpm files for it and 
quite a few "plugins" at http://atrpms.net/  I have not used this program, 
but it is supposed to record videos, as well as encoding and wathing your 
movies also.


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