Normally I would suggest xdtv, which is a fork of xawtv and has recording capabilities (you can even schedule recordings). I build packages for openSUSE as I always preferred that apllication to anything else (including tvtime) for analog TV.
But unfortunately at the moment recording doesn’t work there either, all frames are discarded. I have not found the cause of this issue yet…:\
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@linux-0xlf:~$ mencoder tv:// -o file.mpg
MEncoder -4.8 (C) 2000-2014 MPlayer Team
WARNING: OUTPUT FILE FORMAT IS _AVI_. See -of help.
success: format: 9 data: 0x0 - 0x0
TV file format detected.
Selected driver: v4l2
name: Video 4 Linux 2 input
author: Martin Olschewski <olschewski@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
comment: first try, more to come ;-)
Selected device: V-Stream Studio TV Terminator
Tuner cap: STEREO LANG1 LANG2
Tuner rxs: MONO
Capabilities: video capture video overlay VBI capture device tuner read/write streaming
supported norms: 0 = NTSC; 1 = NTSC-M; 2 = NTSC-M-JP; 3 = NTSC-M-KR; 4 = PAL; 5 = PAL-BG; 6 = PAL-H; 7 = PAL-I; 8 = PAL-DK; 9 = PAL-M; 10 = PAL-N; 11 = PAL-Nc; 12 = PAL-60; 13 = SECAM; 14 = SECAM-B; 15 = SECAM-G; 16 = SECAM-H; 17 = SECAM-DK; 18 = SECAM-L; 19 = SECAM-Lc;
inputs: 0 = Television; 1 = Composite1; 2 = S-Video;
Current input: 1
Current format: YUYV
v4l2: current audio mode is : MONO
Unable to open '/dev/dsp': No such file or directory
Unable to open '/dev/dsp': No such file or directory
Unable to open '/dev/dsp': No such file or directory
v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped.
============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported =============
=== If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! ===
Cannot open demuxer.
Exiting...
I try VLC but not working. I have no video and the sound is bad
I have install MytheTV but i can not setup the database configuration http://postimg.org/image/uqkk037mx/
You have to tune into the correct channel of course.
You should also be able to use tvtime, xawtv, or whatever to change the channel while vlc is running.
“E7” is the channel, you should take the appropriate one (no idea what you would have to specify for the av input though).
This line creates an avi video with XVID video (bitrate 1000) and MP3 audio.
“-tv alsa” is important so that alsa is used for recording (prevents that “Unable to open ‘/dev/dsp’: No such file or directory” error, because OSS support is not activated)
See also “man mencoder”.
I will try to get xdtv’s recording to work again, but I cannot tell how long this will take.
ATM I have no idea why it’s not working.
I managed to “fix” this now. For some reason all frames got dropped (seems to be a problem with wrong timestamps, I have to investigate this further), I disabled dropping of frames completely for now which makes it working again.
It should be sufficient to only install the package “xdtv”.
If you want to have it run in a different language than english, you should install the appropriate libxdtv-i18n-xx package as well.
Then there are also additional theme packages in the different languages (libxdtv-theme-(aqua|carbone)-xx), if you are not satisfied with the standard appearance…
Please note, that there seems to be a problem with the OSD font atm, on my system only chinese characters show up.
Switching on “Xosd” should fix this, you might want to set a different font as well in Xosd’s settings.
If you still have questions about how to use it, feel free to ask…
