[ILUG] Linux video capture

[Frank Duignan]

I hope to get that dongle next week and will report back to the group when
it works (or else its off to ebay :)
f.

On 7 May 2010 19:15, <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:

> On Fri, 7 May 2010, Frank Duignan wrote:
>
>  Has anyone successfully used a usb tv capture device with Linux that is
>> compatible with RTE's free to air digital tv (DVB-T?)?
>>
>
> I have 2 different randomly purchased USB dongles and they just work, at
> least with UK FreeView (i.e. DVB-T). One by Eye-TV, the other is a Hauppauge
> Nova-T. I may have needed to grab a firmware package from somewhere for one
> of them though, I can't remember - think it's in rpmfusion though.
>
> Using gnome-dvb-daemon to schedule recordings. It was a Google sponsored
> GSoC project from last year and the good news is they're sponsoring work on
> it again this summer.
>
> All I need now is for distros to pick up the latest gstreamer bits that
> re-enable interlacing, so that I can use totem (which can 'see' your
> recordings and give you a nice pointy-clicky interface to open them), and
> I'll be v happy.
>
>
>  Does it do analog capture so I can move home movies into the digital
>> arena?
>> Thanks
>>
>
> No.
>
> regards,
> --
> Paul Jakma      paul at jakma.org  Key ID: 64A2FF6A
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