I've managed to record TV shows with nuvrec from the NuppelVideo package (http://mars.tuwien.ac.at/~roman/nuppelvideo/). But I'm having some problems with it and development doesn't seem to be very active. It should also be possible to record with nvrec (http://nvrec.sourceforge.net/) but I haven't been able to compile that one. Then there's mencoder, which according to the documents can grab video from a v4l device. The webvcr+ howto also mentions lavrec from the MJPEGTools project and ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/) Which one should I go for? alex -- Alex Polite http://plusseven.com/gpg