This is pretty much out of the box: ATI TV Wonder VE Red Hat 8.0 HP Vectra VE 256MB RAM xawtv (part of the 8.0 distro) http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net Use xawtv to find the channel you want to record, if using RF, or just plug into the composite in. Shutdown xawtv. Using ffmpeg will capture to .mpg or .jpg sequential files, among other abilities. Quality isn't great, even with DVD input used for testing. Remaining issues: How to capture in 640x480. Looks like the bigphysicalarea bug is biting. I set ffmpeg to capture 640x480, but the result looks like a smaller image has been enlarged. But good enough for my current project. Thanks to anyone who helped. r.b.
