Hi, a few days ago, a little discussion came up about using XawTV's package streamer for recording medium/long movies. I use xawtv for watching TV since I brought my TV card, and it was my first try for record--no good enough. Synchronization was terrible, and it looses too many frames. I search for more reasoable options, and ended with the kernel-2.4/bttv2/mp1e option, which works. Some. Almost. The thing is, mp1e system streams are encoded in real time, reason why the result requires to have a high bitrate for keep good quality, and then the conversion to another bitrate is time-consuming, and the final quality is not as good as I want. The reencoding is because my last goal is to produce home VCDs. So, when I saw the mention of streamer I think "but that thing sucks for record!". But I recently decided to give it a try, and I get a very cool surprise. I use kernel-2.4/bttv2/streamer, and the command line is: streamer -s 352x240 -am -r 15 -t 20000 -f avi15 -o movie.avi I have no frame loss, the video/audio is perfectly synchronized, the CPU isn't on his knees, and the files are HUGE (which is not so mouch trouble; I'm going to buy one of those 80-Gig HDs). BTW, I can use 24 frames/sec and avi24 as format, but then the video is 2x faster than the audio. I need now advice in avi-editing tools (command line is better, but of course), and avi->mpeg[12] conversion tools. I got almost any software related to V4L (qdvt, lavtools, mjpegtools, etc.), so I really only need "histories of succes/failure" with the tools. Thanks in advance. Canek -- Anything is possible, unless it's not.
