Much more progress with V4L as a video recorder: > From: Wayne Allen <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Tony Robinson wrote: > > > Thanks to this list, I've made substantial progress with Linux as a > > video recorder. Here is my current set up: > > > > * 950MHz Athlon, 75 Gbyte IBM IDE HDD, 768 Gbyte RAM > > 768Gbyte of RAM??? I want some of that !!!! :-) I've seen RAM increase by four orders of magnitude since I've been working with computers, I'll probably see another three, but not yet... > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Wayne Allen wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Tony Robinson wrote: > > > > > Thanks to this list, I've made substantial progress with Linux as a > > > video recorder. Here is my current set up: > > > > > > * 950MHz Athlon, 75 Gbyte IBM IDE HDD, 768 Gbyte RAM > > > > 768Gbyte of RAM??? I want some of that !!!! :-) > > > > Wayne > > What software did you use? On the recommedation from someone else on this list, I'm using streamer from the xawtv package. I'm finding the support of AVI files and mjpeg really useful. > I am still trying to get my computer to tune a damn channel in for TV... > scantv doesn't seem to work for some reason and if I put the frequency > into .xawtv manually I still get zip. Does lsmod show tuner installed? If my bttv878 card autodetects it doesn't find the tuner, if I say it is type 10 then it automatically finds the tuner... > From: Marcel Janssen <mphm.janssen@xxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 19:51:10 +0100 > > > 75GB drive > > With a 75Gb drive you should be able to record a full movie using bcast2000 > in quicktime and convert it to mpeg with mpeg2movie I guess. The problem with > bcast2000 for me is that I just don't have enough harddrive to do this, but > recording video at 320*240 25fps -stereo 44100hz sound works perfectly on my > celeron running at 487Mhz. Without lost frames .So ,with the Athlon 950 you > have, this should be running smooth I guess. > > check out the bcast + mpeg-2-movie site : http://heroinewarrior.com/ Sound good, thanks for the link - it seems to be down at the moment though. I'm now recording at 320x240 in mjpeg format, and I expect to get 128 hours on the disk. > From: canek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Canek > =?iso-8859-1?q?Pel=E1ez_Vald=E9s?=) > Date: 03 Jan 2001 16:45:21 -0600 > > Tony; I get much better results with kernel 2.2.4-test, deviceX and bttv2 > (and using mp1e). With 75 Gb od HD you can record in any format you want, > maybe even use bcast2000. I'm now running 2.4.0 and it is stable, no oops yet in the first two hours of recording. I'll look at bttv2 (which I take is the BTTV V4L2 driver) and I take it I'll discover what deviceX is in the process... Linux 2.4.0 is a much cleaner install than 2.2.18 was, I'm waiting for this to fall over, at the moment it occasionally gets 4 frames behind, that is all. while true ; do AVI=`date '+/home/chomp0/%H%M_%d%h%y.avi'` nice -n -10 streamer -r 10 -t 9000 -o $AVI -f mjpeg -F mono16 -R 16000 done So, what's the biggest project in terms of number of TV channels and hours of archive that anyone'll own up to on this list??? Tony Robinson -- http://www.softsound.com
