On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:42:30AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
Does anyone here have any experience of running TV cards and/or DVD writers under Linux?
I have a Kworld V-Stream Xpert 883 card (Conexant CX2388x based) and wonder if there might be any Linux software to drive it, the windows software for it is generally pretty awful. Lots of "lets try and make it look like a TV/Video" and very little actual usability.
Apparently it works, you will need kernel support for it, kernel 2.6.3 has it mentioned under "Video For Linux" and the module name is cx8800. Once you have the kernel end working you will need a tv applicationt to watch tv, I use tvtime for watching tv, and keep meaning to play with mythtv for recording, but I want to buy a DVB card first instead as analogue cards don't actually produce an mpeg2 stream. (you will need to capture the stream and then encode it as mpeg2)
In addition I'd quite like to record the captured video (presumably MPG2) to a DVD (in 'playable on a DVD player; format). I currently have a Liteon LDW811-S DVD writer in my Win2k system, I sort of can write captured MPG2 files to the DVD writer as DVDs but the whole process is distinctly flakey. Will I have all the same problems in Linux because the software is still in its infancy or are things more 'together' unde Linux?
There is a package called dvdauthor which will possibly do what you want the Debian package description says
"dvdauthor is a program that will generate a DVD movie from a valid mpeg2 stream that should play when you put it in a DVD player."
also k3b (kde gui burning software) has a menu titled "encode video" but I don't know much about it so I don't know what it does :)
Adam