[mythtv-users] Recording from a video camera

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sun Dec 3 23:34:39 UTC 2006


On 03/12/06, David Fishburn <fishburn at ianywhere.com> wrote:
>
> MythTV 0.20
> Ivtv 0.8.1
> Kernel 2.6.18.1
>
> I found a good thread on this:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/175172?search_string=vide
> o%20camera;#175172
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/232857?search_string=chan
> ge%20capture%20resolution;#232857
>
> Where Mike suggested:
>     ivtvctl -u 0x3000
>     ivtvctl -p 6
>     ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480
>     dd if=/dev/video0 of=/tmp/myvideo.mpg
>
> Problem is with ivtv 0.8.1 none of these switches exist anymore.  Or at
> least I get usage with them.

In the newer ivtv releases, many non-ivtv specific functions have been
moved from ivtvctl to v4l2-ctl. See
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Ivtvctl.

Nick


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