Title: TV-Tuner Card Subject: I had to setup my tv-tuner card ( Useful Links: http://www.robfisher.net/video/ Find my card specs: dmesg |grep Hauppauge bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV [card=10], PCI subsystem ID is 0070:13eb bttv0: detected by eeprom: Hauppauge (bt848) [card=2] bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom: model=62471, tuner=Philips FM1236 (2), radio=yes lspci |grep bt848 0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02) 0000:00:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02) Hauppauge WinTV card is supported by the 'bttv' driver: Edit /etc/modprobe.conf options bttv pll=1 radio=0 card=0 options tuner type=0 Reboot and see if it loads lsmod |egrep 'bttv|tuner' tuner 20004 0 bttv 147276 1 video_buf 20356 1 bttv firmware_class 9600 1 bttv i2c_algo_bit 9352 1 bttv v4l2_common 6144 1 bttv btcx_risc 4744 1 bttv i2c_core 23312 4 tuner,tvaudio,bttv,i2c_algo_bit videodev 9344 2 bttv Now test to see if /dev/video0 is accessable xawtv -hwscan This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.8-24.5-default) looking for available devices port 84-84 [ -xvport 84 ] type : Xvideo, video overlay type : Xvideo, image scaler name : NeoMagic Video Engine /dev/video0: OK [ -device /dev/video0 ] type : v4l2 name : BT878 video (Hauppauge (bt848)) flags: overlay capture tuner ---------------------- Hookup the S-Video from a camera to my Hauppauge WinTV card, Hookup the audio out to my and press play Install axwtv, and streamer will be there. streamer -o quicktime.mov -f yuv2 -F stereo -r 12 -t 0:10 streamer -i S-Video -o quicktime1.mov -f yuv2 -F stereo -r 12 -t 0:10 This created a movie but I didn't hear any sound streamer -i S-Video -t 0:10 -o movie.mov -f jpeg -F mono16 streamer -i S-Video -t 0:30 -s 352x240 -r 24 -o /data/movie.avi -f mjpeg -F stereo This gives the best quality picutre so far, but still no audio streamer -i S-Video -c /dev/video0 -t 0:30 -s 320x240 -r 24 -o /data/movie.avi -f mjpeg -j 75 -n ntsc -F mono8 -C/dev/dsp -R 44100 Someone sugests setting some audio options amixer set Master,0 100%,100% unmute amixer set Line,0 75%,75% mute captur amixer set Capture,0 100%,100% mute captur su alsactl store exit streamer -i S-Video -c /dev/video0 -t 0:30 -s 320x240 -r 24 -o /data/movie.avi -f mjpeg -j 75 -n ntsc -F mono8 -C/dev/dsp -R 44100 This was good, but sound only comes from one speaker, and 10 minutes=360MB streamer -i svideo -c /dev/video0 -t 00:30:00 -s 320x240 -r 24 -o /data/movie.avi -f mjpeg -j 75 -n ntsc -F stereo -C /dev/dsp -R 44100 ---------------------- Install a boat load of packages: avifile avifile-qt All the 1394 packages # for firewaire libdv All libdvd packages Now check to see if we can stream: cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg Without a tuner, you can only grab Composite video or S-Video. PVR: Purchase a composite video port from (Radio Shack), solder two wires to the video port. Transcode can deinterlace the mpeg. PAL signal shows a B&W Picture. NTSC signal shows Color Picutre. ------------------------------------ Setup Mplayer: Found agreat source for this stuff. Open the control center. Click YaST modules Click Software Click Change Installation Source Click Add Select http Put packman.iu-bremen.de in the site field Put suse/9.2 in the path field Install mplayer, mplayerplug-in, ImageMagic, python-twisted, python-imaging, kdegraphics3-imaging, python-gamelets, python-pygame, python-pygame-doc, python-devel, python, python-opengl, python-ogg, atitvout, camsource, libmovtar, libvcd, libvcd-devel, libxinel-*, pwlib-plugins-{avc,dc,v4l}, transcode, Video-DVDRip, dvid-devel, python-eye3D ------------------------------------ Setup FreeVo (requires mplayer install) install suse rpm: tvtime xine-devel, xine-extra, xine-lib, xinetd, xine-ui vdr-plugins Download mmpython: http://www.sf.net/projects/mmpython wget http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mmpython/mmpython-0.4.7.tar.gz tar -xzvpf mmpython-0.4.7.tar.gz cd mmpython-0.4.7 python setup.py install cd ../ rm -rf mmpython-0.4.7 export PATH=/usr/bin:${PATH} wget http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/freevo/freevo-1.5.2.tar.gz tar -zxvpf freevo-1.5.2.tar.gz cd freevo-1.5.2/ read INSTALL python setup.py install This isn't installing so I'm gogion to moven ---------------------------------------- http://www.slothmud.org/~hayward/Linux_VCR.html Downloading avifile from http://avifile.sourceforge.net/ http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/avifile/avifile-0.7-0.7.41.tar.gz wget http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/avifile/binaries-011002.tgz tar -zxvpf binaries-011002.tgz cp win32/* /usr/lib/win32/ rm -rf win32 wget http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/avifile/divx4linux-20020418.tgz tar -zxvpf divx4linux-20020418.tgz cd divx4linux-20020418/ ./install.sh rm -rf divx4linux-20020418 wget http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/avifile/Win32_dmo.tgz tar -zxpvf Win32_dmo.tgz cp Win32_dmo/* /usr/lib/win32/ rm -rf Win32 tar -zxvpf avifile-0.7-0.7.41.tar.gz cd avifile-0.7-0.7.41/ ./configure Configuration for avifile RELEASE-0.7.41-041215-12:27-3.3.5 Compiler C: gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_GNU_SOURCE -pipe Compiler C++: g++ -O2 -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_GNU_SOURCE -pipe Install path: /usr/local Qt: yes Sdl: no (*** no SDL => no video rendering! ***) Xft: yes Oss audio: yes Sun audio: no Mga_vid: no Plugins: ac3passthrough yes (with SBLive only) divx (dec/enc) yes/yes (DivxNetworks divx4linux) xvid no (DivX4, XviD) xvid4 yes (DivX4, XviD) ffmpeg yes (DivX ;-), OpenDivX, MJPEG, AC3) ffmpeg faad no (AAC) (runtime yes) os motion jpeg yes (MJPEG) win32 yes (DivX, WM7/8/9, DV, MJPEG, Ati, Asus,...) mad yes (MPEG Layer I/II/III) vorbis yes lame runtime yes make failed: In file included from fcc_type.c:1: ../../include/utils.h:41: error: parse error before '{' token ../../include/utils.h:50: error: parse error before '{' token ../../include/utils.h:56: error: parse error before "uint16_t" ../../include/utils.h:61: error: parse error before '{' token ../../include/utils.h:70: error: parse error before '{' token ../../include/utils.h:78: error: parse error before "uint32_t" ../../include/utils.h:83: error: parse error before '{' token ../../include/utils.h:92: error: parse error before '{' token ../../include/utils.h:101: error: parse error before '{' token ../../include/utils.h:103: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `b' ../../include/utils.h:103: error: `v' undeclared here (not in a function) ../../include/utils.h:103: warning: data definition has no type or storage class ../../include/utils.h:104: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `b' ../../include/utils.h:104: error: conflicting types for `b' ../../include/utils.h:103: error: previous declaration of `b' ../../include/utils.h:104: error: `v' undeclared here (not in a function) ../../include/utils.h:104: warning: data definition has no type or storage class ../../include/utils.h:105: error: parse error before "return" ../../include/utils.h:108: error: parse error before '{' token ../../include/utils.h:117: error: parse error before '{' token ../../include/utils.h:119: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `b' ../../include/utils.h:119: error: conflicting types for `b' ../../include/utils.h:104: error: previous declaration of `b' ../../include/utils.h:119: error: `v' undeclared here (not in a function) ../../include/utils.h:119: warning: data definition has no type or storage class ../../include/utils.h:120: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `b' ../../include/utils.h:120: error: conflicting types for `b' ../../include/utils.h:119: error: previous declaration of `b' ../../include/utils.h:120: error: `v' undeclared here (not in a function) ../../include/utils.h:120: warning: data definition has no type or storage class ../../include/utils.h:121: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `b' ../../include/utils.h:121: error: conflicting types for `b' ../../include/utils.h:120: error: previous declaration of `b' ../../include/utils.h:121: error: `v' undeclared here (not in a function) ../../include/utils.h:121: warning: data definition has no type or storage class ../../include/utils.h:122: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `b' ../../include/utils.h:122: error: conflicting types for `b' ../../include/utils.h:121: error: previous declaration of `b' ../../include/utils.h:122: error: `v' undeclared here (not in a function) ../../include/utils.h:122: warning: data definition has no type or storage class ../../include/utils.h:123: error: parse error before "return" ../../include/utils.h:126: error: parse error before '{' token ../../include/utils.h:136: error: parse error before '{' token ../../include/utils.h:140: error: parse error before '{' token ../../include/utils.h:144: error: parse error before '{' token fcc_type.c:8: error: parse error before '{' token fcc_type.c:110: error: parse error before '{' token make[2]: *** [fcc_type.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jstile/avifile-0.7-0.7.41/lib/common' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jstile/avifile-0.7-0.7.41/lib' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Giving up on building my own build of avifile, just used suse rpm ---------------------- Install vcr wget http://www.stack.nl/~brama/vcr/src/vcr-1.10.tar.gz ls tar -zxvpf vcr-1.10.tar.gz cd vcr-1.10/ ./configure make make install No errors seen Create vcr program ## BEGIN ~/.vcrrc ## [global] freqtab = us-cable pixsize = 128 x 96 pixcols = 1 jpeg-quality = 75 mjpeg-quality = 75 toggle-mouse = 0 keypad-ntsc = no osd = yes # [Station name] # capture = overlay | grabdisplay | on | off # input = Television | Composite1 | S-Video | ... # norm = PAL | NTSC | SECAM | ... # channel = # # fine = # (-128..+127) # key = keysym | modifier+keysym # color = # # bright = # # hue = # # contrast = # [defaults] norm = NTSC capture = over input = Television [CH0 0] channel = 0 fine = 0 [CH1 1] channel = 1 fine = 0 [CH2 2] channel = 2 fine = 0 ## END ~/.vcrrc ## ## BEGIN recordshow6.sh ## #!/bin/sh DATE=`date +%m%d%y` FILENAME=/multimedia/movies/show-6pm-$DATE.avi v4lctl setstation 2 vcr -t 60m $FILENAME ## BEGIN recordshow6.sh ## ## BEGIN cron ## 00 06 * * 1-5 /path/to/recordshow6.sh ## END cron ##