Hi there,
yes and enjoying very good usage out of it -- with the aid of "vcr" I
have Neighbours crontab'd ;o) I'll try to be thorough, but it has been
such a very long time since I've played around with anything on this
box, so apologies if I miss out some useful info.
My machine setup:
Kernel: 2.4.4 (with V4L option compiled in)
BTTV: 0.7.65 (I compiled straight from source on Gerd's site)
X: 4.0.3 (default Mandrake installation)
Linux Mandrake: 8.0 / Athlon T'Bird 800 / Matrox G400
Firstly to kick off TV I use the following script for convenience:
runTv: (aumix is used to change enable the correct audio channel, there
should be 3 channels on the mixer -- might need to experiment here)
#!/bin/bash
aumix -d/dev/mixer1 -1R
sox -w -r 32000 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp2 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp&
xawtv -bpp 24
killall sox
/etc/modules: (not really needed, but a boot convenience, note my main
soundcard driver is loaded first, this affect which DSP / Mixer numbers
correspond to BTAUDIO generated one)
...
videodev
emu10k1
i2c-core
i2c-algo-bit
bttv # card=23 pll=1
btaudio # analog=2 dsp=2
...
/etc/modules.conf: (note, rely upon bttv to load btaudio)
...
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
options bttv card=23 pll=1
...
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4: (you should only really need v4l, but never been
sure of how to configure X11
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "v4l"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
SubSection "extmod"
#Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
I think that should be it. And now to the important bit, how to
configure your box to record neighbours ;o) From my crontab:
34 17 * * 1-5 /home/hashaday/bin/tvrecord
/behemoth/shared/tvrecordings/neighbours/`date +neighbours.\%a.avi` bbc1
26
I maintain a directory of the last 5 episodes of the form of:
neighbours.<Day>.avi
tvrecord is merely a script that shuts off setiathome for duration of
recording:
#!/bin/bash
FILM=$1
CHANNEL=$2
DURATION=$3
rm -f /tmp/safetorun
killall setiathome
/usr/local/bin/vcr $FILM -t $DURATION -source Television -p $CHANNEL -c
"DivX ;-) Low-Motion" 2> /behemoth/shared/tvrecordings/vcr.stderr.log 1>
/behemoth/shared/tvrecordings/vcr.stdin.log
cd /home/hashaday/.setiathome/
./run_seti&
I hope this is of some help :o) Feel free to quiz although I'm not sure
I'll have worthwhile answers :o(
'tish.
ck wrote:
>
> I hope you don't mind me emailing you like this, but I just
> saw you post on the BTTV mailing archive re: Modular Technologies MM205
> PCTV card btaudio. Did you ever get the audio to work, since I have the
> same card and have tried all I can to get it to work and am now out of
> ideas...
>
> If you did, can you remember how you did it and if you can, do you mind
> telling me how?!
>
> TIA Chris
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