In linux a good alternative would be kaffeine. I have used this with my DVB tuner, but I am not sure if it is suitable for recording. On 12/28/07, Stevens <fred-n-sandy@embarqmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 27 December 2007 09:33, John Meyer wrote:
I have a TV card and I want to record programs with it. I've tried out mythtv, but it seems a little too much for me. Are there any other alternatives out there?
xawtv has a save to avi option. Not sure how good it is. I use a Windows app (several, actually) if I want to record video. about the best I've run across so far (ease of use, cpu overhead, etc) is Open Video Capture at http://www.008soft.com/products/video-capture.htm
It isn't open source and it costs $30 and it doesn't work with wine. With CIF (320x240) resolution (view and save) at mpeg4 and a P4/2.4GHz system it uses less than 20% cpu. I installed it on a doctor's system that runs a realtime patient data monitoring hardware/software app that uses about 70% cpu and the video was able to run concurrently without causing the system to lose any data. He was tickled at being able to record the video of the patient and time sync with the data collected. His sessions run around 7 hours and the video files average around 2GB, no problem for a dvd-r.
If you aren't too worried about cpu utilization, kick it up to D1 resolution and let it fly. This program is the only one that I found that met all my specs: it has low cpu %, it can be resized, it has several codecs (or uses those that come with Windows) and it can be made to stay "on top".
If you want Linux DVR software, I am sure that something like ffmpeg and mencoder will read the video device and output a file but I know not the commands.
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