With the main web site for mp1e apparently down - where does one grab a copy of mp1e-1.8-0-pre3? On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 09:06:09PM -0400, Mike Redan wrote: > mp1e can do the dumping to disk.. > a quote from earlier this week wwhen I asked a similiar question: > "mp1e 1.8.0-pre3 does a pretty good job when I use it with my bttv card > and > the v4l2 driver. It records IBP mpeg streams with audio in real time. > 30fps > 352x240 2.5mbit video with a stereo 160kbit soundtrack uses about 30% > CPU > time on my Celeron 366@550 w/ pc100 memory. Audio synchronization seems > accurate. I've been able to make decent double-bitrate VCD's from the > files > it produces." > from Brian Ristuccia > > XMLTV will grab the TV listings for ya (right now it only grabs UK > listings, but I submitted a patch so it can grab canadian, there is an > austrian one floating around too I think...any americans/other countries > like to help out?), but still needs an good interface, I believe that it > is going to be incorporated into gtv.. > > I have a ATI-TV wonder and it seems to work alright quality wise..its > not perfect, but it works. > > You'll have to use V4L2 though, if you want to be able to capture and > record at the same time. > > if you are interested in writing code for something like this, i'd love > to help. > > > Mike > > brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > I'd like to roll my own Tivo/Replay. > > > > I'd be happy to use some hardware to accomplish this end. > > > > The Iomega BUZ seem kinda cool, but they don't seem to > > sell it anymore: > > > > >Iomega has decided it will not ship any additional units of the Buz[tm] > > >Multimedia Producer for the PC to its distribution channels. However, > > >Iomega will continue to support the product - if you buy one you can > > >continue to count on Iomega's outstanding customer support. Iomega > > >will, of course, honor all warranties until they expire. ... > > > > The LML33 looks promising, but linuxmedialabs.com's website doesn't > > respond. > > > > I also found a company that makes an USB based MPEG encoder, and > > soon a firewire version, which uses the iComp chip (same as in > > Tivo). Sadly no Linux driver. > > > > So what are people doing these days for a solution? > > > > I'm not worried about disk space, so MJPEG is a fine solution. > > > > Can I reliably (with adequate audio-sync) capture with say > > a bt878 card, dumping the data to disk and encode later? > > > > Quality wise, 352x240 would be fine for my application. > > > > I'm even thinking that using my camcorder and dumping the DV data > > via firewire would be ok. > > > > -- > > Brian Litzinger <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list >
