On Wednesday 01 June 2005 10:00 pm, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Message: 10 > Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:26:44 -0800 > From: "James T. Carver" <jtcarver@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: TV Cards and Video capture > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <200506012026.50480.jtcarver@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Wednesday 01 June 2005 06:28 pm, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Message: 3 > > Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:34:03 -0400 > > From: "Tom W." <tom.wilkinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: TV cards and capture > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Message-ID: <1117668843.6364.3.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Content-Type: text/plain > > > > Can I expect to be able to watch and record television under Fedora Core > > 3 as easily as under a Windows system? > > I can't get KDE to work, as it says it needs 8.4 or higher for my tv > > card (MSI tv@anywhere). When I try and install a higher version, there > > is an endless amount of dependencies to find and get. > > > > What is the best program to use? > > > > I have tried tvanytime, but am getting a green picture. > > > > Thanks > > Tom > > Watching TV and recording video, that is something that I have not had much > luck with either, are you trying to use kdetv ? you might try looking at > the BTTV howto page, as it is not really a simple process. Make sure that > your card is supported withing the bttv kernel driver on the howto page > they have a pretty comprehensive listing of the cards that are supported. > then you have to make the actual device nodes, and since Fedora core uses > udev to create the nodes, you are going to have to write the rules for udev > to create the right device nodes. I think that kdetv wants to use the > /dev/video or dev/video0 . As far as capturing goes, the only decent video > capture program is called cinelerra, as none of the tv programs I have come > across will actually do any video capture, they all just do stills, which > doesn't do much good when you are trying to record video..... > > James Sorry... I had forgotten about mythtv... you can get the rpm files for it and quite a few "plugins" at http://atrpms.net/ I have not used this program, but it is supposed to record videos, as well as encoding and wathing your movies also.
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