Interesting. I tried doing the same trick with my PVR-250 card, and xmms wouldn't recognize the file as a valid mpg file. Why would that be? I can normally get live tv video (though no audio yet).<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 2/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joseph A. Caputo</b> <<a href="mailto:jcaputo1@comcast.net">jcaputo1@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 13:45, Dave Bixler wrote:<br>> If my capture card is operating properly, would:<br>><br>> cat /dev/video > test.mpg<br>><br>> produce a valid MPEG file? The capture card I'm using is a Hauppauge
<br>> WinTV Go Plus.<br><br>No. You have a simple framegrabber card; it does not encode into MPEG.<br>To test it, use xawtv or tvtime.<br><br>> The reason I'm asking is that the file that is produced does not seem<br>
> to be valid. Would this, therefore, be a symptom of a larger<br>> problem?<br><br>Yes. The larger problem being that you're trying to use the card like<br>you would use a PVR-250 or similar card. It won't work that way.
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