[mythtv-users] VCR capture recommendation - solution & update

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/17/2015 6:16 AM, Alistair Grant wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking to transfer some VCR tapes, and possibly capture the
>>>> analogue output of a satellite receiver, both in Australia (PAL-B) and
>>>> the Czech Republic (PAL-DK?).
>>>>
>>>> What would you suggest as a capture device to work with MythTV?
>> ...
>>
>> Thanks to everyone for their feedback.  Based on everything I've read,
>> it looks like the Hauppauge USB-Live2 will best suit my needs at the
>> moment.
> I never got "cat /dev/video > myfile.mpg" to work.  I ended up using:
>
> mythffmpeg -y -loglevel debug -f alsa -i plughw:1,0 -f v4l2 -s pal
> -pix_fmt yuyv422 -i /dev/video1 -b:v 2048k myfile.nut

The "cat" method only works with devices that have a hardware encoder, 
like the WinTV-PVR-USB2.  The USB-Live2 is a simple, dumb framegrabber.