[ivtv-users] pvr-150 streaming question

[Colin Law]

On 19 February 2010 16:03, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 19 February 2010 14:52, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Well that is nice and simple, I should have thought of that.  Is there
>> a solution that would allow me to pause the recording to skip adverts
>> for example?
>>
> mythtv
>
> www.mythtv.org

I did look at that but it seemed to be a bit of overkill for
converting video tapes.  I can't use the TV on the pvr-150 as we only
have digital TV here.  Never mind, I can post process the files if I
think it is worth the effort.

Many thanks for the help

Colin