Joseph,

   Why not use Ogg?

   http://www.vorbis.com/

-jmz


On 9/27/06, Joseph Sinclair <plug-discussion@stcaz.net> wrote:
>
> Just a thought, but you might want to record to a simpler format than
> AVI-wrapped whatever (something uncompressed perhaps...) to make it easier
> on your system, and then convert to AVI after-the-fact.
> AVI is actually a container spec, and may contain almost anything (from
> MPEG to DivX to Indeo) as the core codec.
> If you were to choose DivX, for instance, you could wrap that in AVI using
> one of the many converters available, most likely without quality loss,
> since it's just wrapping a container around the original file.
>
>
> Nathan England wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 September 2006 09:58, you wrote:
> >> You might try motv (same package as xawtv, different interface).
> >> There's also streamer, tvtime, vstream, or zapping.
> >>
> >> If all else fails, MythTV works great, but takes quite a bit of work to
> get
> >> up and running.
> >>
> >> What's xawtv having trouble with?  Is it working, but not keeping up,
> not
> >> seeing the composite port, just too painful to use???
> >>
> >
> > It segfaults after recording and it doesn't record audio using the
> microsoft
> > avi format. Plus it is just painful to use. ha ha
> >
> > I am not against mythtv, not difficult to setup, but my hardware is not
> fast
> > enough to record and play back, so myth doesn't work real well for me, I
> only
> > need to record.
> >
> > Thank you for the suggestions of the other programs.
> >
> > nathan
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