[wellylug] DSE & Linux

[Pizbit]

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Don't suppose you could share how you use mencoder to record and encode video
from tv? I found a few examples using google not too long ago but none of them
seemed to work for me.

Ewen McNeill wrote:
| In message <4084D34E.5080707 at paradise.net.nz>, Vincent Cox writes:
|
|>I agree, putting the penguin on the box can be a form of false
|>advertising.  I bought a Flyvideo 3000 Video capture/tv card which had
|>a penguin on the box, it came with a disc with some kernel modules on
|>it.  No instructions on how to patch a kernel, and despite all my
|>efforts I could not get it going under 2.4 series kernel.
|
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| I also have one of these cards from DSE, and it will work with a 2.4
| kernel if you patch in v4l2 (which is built into Linux 2.6) and the
| driver for the chipset (philips saa3174) -- both available from the
| driver author's bytesex.org site.  It's working well for me on a patch
| 2.4.25 kernel, give or take reception issues with just rabbit ears,
| and encoding speed issues (a Duron 700 is fairly strained for real time
| encoding -- I can do about 17 fps rather than 25 fps, and have to turn
| off some useful mencoder options to be able to keep up).
|
<snip>
|
| Ewen
|
| PS: Linux Friendly project:
|     http://www.nzoss.org.nz/portal/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=42
|
|

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