Re: TV Cards and Video capture

[James T. Carver]

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 06:28 pm, fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com wrote:
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>  Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:34:03 -0400
>  From: "Tom W." <tom.wilkinson(a)weeklyzone.com&gt;
>  Subject: TV cards and capture
>  To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
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>  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