On 21 July 2006 16:09, Marco Costa wrote: > Hi, > > Actually, that is what I _have_ to do with my old TV card. > It doesn't have a input for audio and no internal mixer, so I have to > record the sound directly from the soundcard. > > I use menconder to do just that: > > > mencoder tv:// -tv > driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:input=3:width=640:height=480:alsa -oac > mp3lame alsa -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=8800:vme=3 -o > outfile.avi
I'll try something like that. What do you think of this error message: Playing tv://. Selected driver: v4l2 name: Video 4 Linux 2 input author: Martin Olschewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> comment: first try, more to come ;-) Selected device: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 Tuner cap: STEREO LANG1 LANG2 Tuner rxs: MONO LANG2 Capabilites: video capture VBI capture device tuner audio read/write supported norms: 0 = PAL-BGH; 1 = PAL-DK; 2 = PAL-I; 3 = PAL-M; 4 = PAL-N; 5 = PAL-Nc; 6 = SECAM-BGH; 7 = SECAM-DK; 8 = SECAM-L; 9 = SECAM-L'; 10 = NTSC-M; 11 = NTSC-J; 12 = NTSC-K; inputs: 0 = Tuner 1; 1 = S-Video 1; 2 = Composite 1; 3 = S-Video 2; 4 = Composite 2; Current input: 2 Current format: unknown (0x4745504d) v4l2: current audio mode is : MONO v4l2: ioctl request buffers failed: Invalid argument v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped. That ioctl failure doesn't seem to be a permission problem. The relevant devices all have group video rw permissions and I am member of video. > > The man page for mencoder is quite undertandable, if you want to customize > the parameters. Not really. I think that man page is a big mess. ;-) Though one can find one's way around in it with tons of time. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
