MPEG-2 capture with Linux?? Suggestions??

keratos68

Any1 with suggestions as to which MPEG-2 encoder card will allow me to capture AV input (+audio) to MPEG-2 format for subsequent write to DVR please??

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xcable · Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 9:54 pm Post subject: hard to find with mpeg2

With the way licensing works with mpeg2 (I think, don't cus me if I'm wrong), your going to have a hard time find free software with mpeg2 encoding. Best to go with divx encoding (it's smaller anyway).

As for hardware I use a Hauppauge TV tuner and have captureed TV and composte just fine to divx. I use DVR http://dvr.sourceforge.net/

xcable
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jerome187 · Guru Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Posts: 584

i think he wants something to capture to MPEG2 cause thats the standard for DVDs, divx will NOT play in any dvd player that i know of.

Nuwen · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 123

I hear there are Linux drivers for the WinTV 250 MPEG encoder cards now, but that's very recent and I don't know if it's actually usable yet. That's the only thing I've heard of that's anywhere close.

dma · Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 3:31 am Post subject:

ffmpeg doesn't do it?

http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/

Heck. I got that thing streaming out stuff to windows media player.

AH. Hardware devices. Never mind.

keratos68 · Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 4:16 am Post subject:

keratos68 · Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 4:19 am Post subject:

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wonderbread · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Posts: 28

I recently bought a Pinnacle Bungee off ebay. It's a usb mpeg2 encoder with antenna, composite, and svideo in. There's a set of open-source command-line tools from http://bungee4linux.sourceforge.net I've set it up nicely as a pvr-ish thing which uses mysql and tvxml to display listings and allow them to be recorded. The Bungee is a discontinued product, however its successor, whose name I don't remember, is available and there seems to be programs for interfacing it on that bungee4linux site.

keratos68 · Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 11:06 am Post subject:

Thanks all.

PCTV works fine and at £45 its a steal. MPEG2 encoding and supported under a number of Linux free movie SW.

Looking gud!

Cheers all.
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