Jos van Kan wrote:

Mark Misulich schreef:

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Hi, I am writing to ask for information and recommendations for shifting one of my major computer tasks from WinXP to Opensuse. I use an ATI TV Wonder Pro capture card to capture video input from old videos which I play on a Video Player, to my hard drive. I use Nero to capture the video, and then convert it so that I can write the file to DVD. I have a number of older scientific videos which I can't easily replace, so I am trying to convert them one by one to dvd. Everything works ok on Windows, but I am trying to learn to do the same task on Suse. I have spent a bit of time during the last year trying to find out how, with negative results. I was able to watch the video input on the computer when I ran 10.2, but now can't get that to work on 10.3. In any event I couldn't find how to save the video to hard drive. I found a few apps might let me watch and save the video on the computer, but haven't been able to get them to work. Most won't pick up the tv input from the capture card, others won't compile, others just don't work. So if you have recommendations that would help me to accomplish my goal I would appreciate it.

Thanks, Mark

Can you play the TV output with mplayer? Because in that case you can save the stream with the option -dumpstream to a file -dumpfile FILENAME

Since you did not tell which applications you tried it's kind of hard to suggest something, because you may have tried that long ago.

Regards,

Hi, I played around with Mplayer and VLC last night but without success. Mplayer only gives me snow, and VLC doesn't present any type of video screen. I will keep on trying to figure out what is happening. Here is a list of the apps that I can remember that I have tried: KDE TV picked up the video from the capture card in 10.2 but not in 10.3, but can't see a way to save the video anyways. XawTV doesn't pick up the video FFTV won't compile from source, can install from a Mandrake rpm but won't open up, so install must not be correct MythTV beyond my ability in linux to get it installed and working Cinellera I can install it from rpm but when I open it up on screen the program is froze and won't respond. I tried to compile it from source and it has a make error that prevents me from installing it. I am pretty sure that I tried a couple of other apps last year but I can't remember what they are at the moment. That was in 10.2 so I can't go back and look to see what was installed. Thanks, Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Charles philip Chan wrote:

Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@embarqmail.com> writes:

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I played around with Mplayer and VLC last night but without success. Mplayer only gives me snow, and VLC doesn't present any type of video screen. I will keep on trying to figure out what is happening.

What is the output of:

,---- | lsmod | grep cx88 `----

?

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MythTV beyond my ability in linux to get it installed and working

If you don't know now to compile and setup mythtv, there are Packman packages. However, last time I checked, the Packman version still uses qt3, where as the SVN version have added support for qt4 recently.

Charles

I installed MythTV from RPM (packman) but still couldn't get it to work, but that was 10.2. I will try it again to see if things work better now for 10.3 Here is the output: lxmark@linux-bhzb:~> lsmod | grep cx88 cx8800 48104 0 cx88xx 80548 1 cx8800 ir_common 50436 1 cx88xx i2c_algo_bit 22276 1 cx88xx video_buf 39940 2 cx8800,cx88xx tveeprom 31248 1 cx88xx videodev 42752 2 cx8800,cx88xx compat_ioctl32 17664 1 cx8800 v4l2_common 32896 4 tuner,cx8800,cx88xx,videodev btcx_risc 21128 2 cx8800,cx88xx i2c_core 39808 6 tuner,cx88xx,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,nvidia,i2c_i801 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

OK, the modules are loaded. If you are using cable, satellite, etc, is it set to the correct channel for TV? Also, please post your /etc/modprobe.d/tv.

Charles

Here is /etc/modprobe.d/tv alias char-major-81 videodev options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 # YaST configured TV card # B35A.xq0ec48f1vF:ATI TV Wonder Pro alias char-major-81-0 cx8800 alias char-major-81-1 off alias char-major-81-2 off alias char-major-81-3 off I am only using the video input from the vcr player via coax, and I tried to select the channel that the vcr is playing on (channel 4). I did that via command line as I couldn't find a way to do it via any gui, here is what I put in bash. mplayer tv://4 /7 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@embarqmail.com> wrote:

MythTV beyond my ability in linux to get it installed and working

Sorry for my prior empty post... Have you considdered MythBuntu http://www.mythbuntu.org/ It does it all. May not be the solution for your ONLY machine unless you can live with Ubuntu, but it does install it and get it working pretty much out of the box. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@embarqmail.com> wrote:

John Andersen wrote:

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Have you considdered MythBuntu http://www.mythbuntu.org/ It does it all. May not be the solution for your ONLY machine unless you can live with Ubuntu, but it does install it and get it working pretty much out of the box.

Hi, thanks for sending me the info. I did know about this, I also read that Fedora works well with mythtv.

I looked the mythbuntu site over and thought that I may have to install it on another machine and play with it to learn how to get myth running. Hopefully that will give me enough knowledge to later get mythtv working on Suse.

I would like to keep learning info that will help me to get tv capture going on Suse. That is the distro that I prefer to use. I have used it since I began linux, and I know the most about it.

Mark

When I first installed Mythtv, many years ago, I simply went to the MythTV site and patiently followed the directions step by step. I figured it would take me 6 months, because back then I didn't know too much. It was not that hard at all. You first have to hunt down the prerequisites they mention, and install them with yast or command line rpm. Then be prepared to interrupt your work and install some more prerequisites that they fail to mention. There is nothing too hard about it, and no need to actually write any code or even patch any code. Think of it as a month long project and don't be impatient. The first 100 years are the hardest. ;-) The regular MythTv directions work very well for building from source, which is what I did. However there are packages for Suse available on Packman. See: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Opensuse_10.3 read down to "Install the required packages". -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Mark Misulich wrote:

thanks for the encouragement and direction of how to procede. Patience and persistence are the prerequisites for learning linux.

Or for learning mathematics, aikido, a musical instrument, or anything else worthwhile.

I have been able to get the mythtv packages installed via yast. The problem I had was getting it working. I ran afoul of things it said to do to get it setup, which I did, which it then didn't recognize I had done. I am sure your advice regarding the mythtv site will be helpful.

This sort of application could probably use some attention. It would be nice to have a suse pattern which would provide the ease of a mythbuntu as regards installation and setup, and the quality results of a hand tuned opensuse setup. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org