[mythtv-users] Capture transport streams

[Martin Bene]

Hi, 

> I am trying to troubleshoot some issues with my QAM tuner and 
> I'd like to capture a raw transport stream.  I was using:
> 
> mencoder -dvbin card=2 dvb://C090-276 -frames 90 -ovc lavc 
> -nosound -o test.avi
> 
> but this is always creates an AVI file.  I tried "-ovc copy" 
> and "-ovc raw" but I can't get a transport stream.  Will 
> mplayer or some other tool give me the transport stream?

I thought the easiest way of capturing TS off a dvb card was to run

szap/czap/tzap -a 2 -r "channel name"

in one window and using 

cat /dev/dvb/adapter2/dvr0 > mystream.ts

to capture the actual transport stream?

Bye, Martin