video capture

[Nathan England]

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