John Andersen wrote:

On Thursday 03 August 2006 02:04, Jos van Kan wrote:

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In the thread "Installing windows ...etc" Basil Chupin wrote:

"The only thing I am looking for is an app. for SuSE which I can use to CAPTURE video thru the tv tuner card I use to watch - like at this moment - the daily news."

With Mplayer you have the option to dump the video stream to a file. I have tested this with all kind of streaming video on the web and that works fine, My connection is too slow to allow real streaming video, so this way I can watch video streams off line. But I'm not sure if that also works for a tv tuner card. Do you lead that output through a video player like xine? If so then mplayer looks a good bet to me.

cat /dev/video0 > myfile.mpeg

Unfortunately, this only gives an error message, "Device or resource busy" :-( .

Adjust device as necessary for your card. Not cute, but works. To play: mplayer myfile.mpeg

Plenty of tv packages available in SuSE distro.

I have a non-SuSE app, tvtime, installed and is the best app. for picture quality - but no capture of tv (except for snapshot). The other one in SuSE which actually works (ie, outputs a picture and audio) is kdetv but the quality of pic. is nowhere lousy compared to tvtime. But, again, no capture of pic. is available. The other 2, xawTv and motv, do have the ability to capture video to a file but although it/they scan and actually find all the TV channels correctly the damn apps do not output a picture nor audio :-( . Not much fun in staring at a black, soundless, screen. So, in the final analysis, it/they are useless as tits on a bull.

Really awesome MythTV package freely available from mythtv.org

I've had a look at this and it looks great except that the package does not support my tvtuner card. So <sigh>, I am still stuck with having to boot into Win if I want to capture some documentary. Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1

Tom Patton wrote:

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 14:03 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:

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The other 2, xawTv and motv, do have the ability to capture video to a file but although it/they scan and actually find all the TV channels correctly the damn apps do not output a picture nor audio :-( . Not much fun in staring at a black, soundless, screen. So, in the final analysis, it/they are useless as tits on a bull.

I have two tuner cards running, and am able to see and record off two instances of xawtv just fine with SuSE9.3. Another flawless app for editing and capture is cinelerra. I suspect you are missing some codecs along the way.

Thanks Tom for the assistance. Only problem with this is that I am running 10.1. When installing both motv and xawtv there were no dependency problems, and I just checked this again so it doesn't appear that there are any codecs missing. As mentioned, kdetv and tvtime are running normally. <shrugs> Dunno what to think.

Start with loading vlan from packman, and then cinelerra. Between those installs, you will probably find your v4l working properly.

Cannot find either vlan or cinerella at packman but vlan was one of the packages which 10.1 recognised as being installable - but motv/xawtv still doesn't want to play ball. Cinerella I picked up from its home page as a source package and now (ie sometime later today) will try to compile it. Cinerella looks very interesting so I hope that it will compile and work on 10.1. And thanks for mentioning cinerella as I haven't heard of it and was wondering if there was anything to replace what is avaiable for Windows. Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1