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

Alistair Grant akgrant0710 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 18 09:04:47 UTC 2015


Hi Raymond,

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 5:25 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> 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:
>> ...
>>> 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.

That makes sense, thanks very much for the explanation.

Cheers,
Alistair


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