[ivtv-users] pvr-150 streaming question

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> My first post here as a newcomer to the field of video capture.
> I have installed a Hauppauge pvr-150 in my PC running Ubuntu 9.10. I
> wish to use it to convert my stack of video tapes to DVD before my
> ageing video recorder dies.
>
> With a bit of googling I learnt that I should install ivtv-utils  and
> am able to set the input channel to the composite i/p with
> v4l2-ctl --set-input=2
>
> I was then very pleased to find that, due to the hard work of many out
> there over the years, I am able to type
> cat /dev/video0 > myfile.mpg
> to capture the signal to an mpg file, or
> vlc pvr:///dev/video0 to see it live in VLC
>
> I am sure that there a way that I can view it and record it at the
> same time but I have not managed to work out how.  Any help would be
> much appreciated.
>

Run the cat in one terminal. Then use your favorite viewer to view the
file the cat produces in a second terminal. It should not matter that
the file is being appended to.

John

John