video capture

[Joseph Sinclair]

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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