Video capture?

[Daryl]

Tony -

As a matter of fact, I just got my video Capture Card ( Hauppage winTV )
working this week.  It is pretty awesome stuff.  It took me some time to
get it going but one of the documents that helped me the most was the
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/VCR-HOWTO-3.html document.

I had the video capture card laying around and then I read that Tivo
actually is using Linux.  So now I have my computer setup so that I can
record anything off the tv using vcr-1.09.  I record in DivX format and
then use xine 0.9.7 to view them.

I am using Mandrake 8.1 which I might add automatically detected the video
capture card and setup up everything perfectly.  Mandrake installed Xawtv
and the video device which worked without me having to do anything.  I was
very impressed with this because I had jacked around with this video
capture card in windows for a few weeks about 3 or 4 months ago and had
given up.  Thank the gods that I happened across a tivo article on
slashdot which sparked my interest in getting my video capture card to
work in Linux.  Mandrakes install is second to none as far as I can tell.
Anyway..  no sense in preaching to the choir.

Video capture is working great for me.  :)

Let me know if you have any questions on my setup.

later...

Daryl

On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Tony Hammitt wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Just wondering if anyone out there has done any video capture on Linux.
> I have done things like this on a Mac before but I don't have any idea
> whether it's even possible on Linux.  I don't really want to get a
> lesser OS just to convert some home movies...
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA,
>
> 	Tony
>
>
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