Hi folks, hope you can help me with this one cos i've been pulling my hair out for days now ! I'm trying to get my machine recording tv from a Hauppauge WinTV PCI card, which i've been only partly successful in doing. The problem is with the avi files that I end up with. When played back, they are speeded up a bit, and everyone sounds like they've been breathing helium ! While this was amusing for the first 5 mins or so, i'm getting a bit fed up with it now :-) I've tried recording with transcoder usnig the following command line :- transcode -z -c 00:00:10 -y divx5 lame -b128 -i /dev/video0 -p /dev/dsp1 -o /home/video/test.avi -u 2 -Q 5 and with mencoder with the following command :- mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=384:height=288:input=0:norm=PAL:chanlist=europe-west:cha nnel=1:adevice=/dev/dsp1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=100 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:vol=5:br=128 -endpos 10 -o "/home/video/test.avi" and both do exactly the same thing. The only app that does record at the correct speed is xawtv, but this is not much good to me cos i'd like to use a command line utility as I'm trying to get WebVCR+ running so I can program my system to record stuff via a web interface. My system is as follows :- AMD XP2000+ 512M ram Gigabyte GA-7VAXP Ultra 2 x Maxtor 80Gig drives configured as one RAID0 array using linux ataraid drivers. WinTV PCI Card with MSP3415 sound chip on it. Distribution is Debian 3.0r1 I'm using kernel 2.4.20, and have tried it both with and without the latest alsa sound drivers(0.9.3c), latest bttv driver(0.7.106), and latest i2c driver(2.7.0) relevent output from dmesg is as follows :- i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module version 2.7.0 (20021208) bttv: driver version 0.7.96 loaded bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture bttv: Host bridge is PCI device 1106:3189 (VIA Technologies, Inc.) bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 00:0c.0, irq: 16, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe3004000 bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV [card=10], PCI subsystem ID is 0070:13eb bttv0: using: BT878(Hauppauge (bt878)) [card=10,autodetected] bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [5] i2c-dev.o: Registered 'bt848 #0' as minor 0 bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom: model=61324, tuner=Temic 4006FH5 (14), radio=no bttv0: using tuner=14 bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3415D-A2, has NICAM support msp3410: daemon started bttv0: i2c attach [client=MSP3415D-A2,ok] bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951) tuner: probing bt848 #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005] tuner: chip found @ 0xc2 bttv0: i2c attach [client=Temic PAL_BG (4006FH5),ok] bttv0: registered device video0 bttv0: registered device vbi0 btaudio: driver version 0.7 loaded [digital+analog] btaudio: Bt878 (rev 2) at 00:0c.1, irq: 16, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe3005000 btaudio: using card config "default" btaudio: registered device dsp1 [digital] btaudio: registered device dsp2 [analog] btaudio: registered device mixer1 tvmixer: debug: MSP3415D-A2 tvmixer: MSP3415D-A2 (bt848 #0) registered with minor 32 tvmixer: debug: Temic PAL_BG (4006FH5) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ataraid(114,3), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1. server:/home/lee# Any suggestions and help would be much appreciated ! Regards Lee Mitchell
