This is most likely very simple. Those are the things that escape me most often.
I’ve just purchased one of these WinTV 950Q USB adapters.
I’ve plugged it in to the USB jack, gone into Kaffeine and scanned for channels.
Wow. Very cool. I can watch broadcast TV on the PC now with the little antenna included.
Seemed very simple to set up and make happen.
But now I’m wondering about how do I change the “input” of the device to read the connected video/audio cables instead of the antenna?
Could be attached to any source, like a DVR, or a game console, that will vary. I’m just not savvy enough to figure out how to see anything on the PC other than the TV channels.
A push anyone?
Thanks!
On Fri 08 Apr 2016 04:36:01 PM CDT, SomeSuSEUser wrote:
This is most likely very simple. Those are the things that escape me
most often.
I’ve just purchased one of these WinTV 950Q USB adapters.
I’ve plugged it in to the USB jack, gone into Kaffeine and scanned for
channels.
Wow. Very cool. I can watch broadcast TV on the PC now with the little
antenna included.
Seemed very simple to set up and make happen.
But now I’m wondering about how do I change the “input” of the device to
read the connected video/audio cables instead of the antenna?
Could be attached to any source, like a DVR, or a game console, that
will vary. I’m just not savvy enough to figure out how to see anything
on the PC other than the TV channels.
A push anyone?
Thanks!
Hi
You mean this device;
So it comes with some sort of composite cables? If it’s like my Sabrent
device it’s only good for analog/digital/cable. But I’m guessing you
could somehow feed it through a VCR aerial connection…? I just use a
Somagic EasyCap DC60 - USB 2.0 Video Capture Adapter to grab from a
video camera, dvd or vhs tape device.
The Sabrent device is connected to openSUSE Leap running tvheadend and
I can broadcast over the network to any computer, android or apple
device…
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Yes that’s it. The little socket you see on the left side of the stick is a miniHDMI jack (I think it’s called)
There is a dongle that plugs in there and has 3 female RCA connectors, Left/Right Audio and a Video feed.
Theoretically one can attach something like a game console, or DVR / VCR to it and play content from those devices and capture it on the PC.
For example to take stuff off of a DVR for archiving, then one can clean off the DVR and not loose what you’d had there before.
This device has a small Over the Air antenna that plugs into the end of it on that F connector. or is it an N connector? Anyway I connected the antenna to it and ran Kaffeine and figured out how to make it scan for TV channels and it works great! If I wanted to I could record the TV show as it is being broadcast using Kaffeine. Very nice.
BUT I haven’t figured out how to record content from the DVR, VCR, or game console.
It would seem to just be a matter of telling the appropriate software to look at the incoming stream from the miniHDMI port instead of the antenna.
But I can’t seem to figure out how to do that.
Maybe I need a different application to do that?
I’m not sure.
Hi
OK, so if you open a terminal window and tail the messages log, then plug the device in, you should see some output and hopefully something about /dev/videoN?
I use VLC (from videolan repo, but if you have packman added that should work just as well), then just select Media-> Open Capture Device and save…
OK I’ve worked with this a little more and have read some more…
dev/video0 is the device I take it. I see references to that in different places.
That refers to the physical “stick in the socket” in my rudimentary understanding.
I’ve not been successful with VLC yet for some reason but Kaffeine plays Over the Air TV signals … that part is fine.
But this device has not only the connector for the antenna, but also another connector that you can plug in RCA / SVideo inputs for the purpose of recording off of a VCR for instance to your harddrive.
So I looked at the screenshots of the Windows based control software from Hauppauge and note that there is a panel where you make selections about whether you’re processing TV analog, TV Digital, Digital QAM or the holy grail… External Audio/Video Sources.
So I suppose what I’m trying to do, is not possible to do other than by having some control software to make the selection…?
No command to issue manually to tell the device dev/video0 which input source you want it to feed the PC?
Appreciate the help to this point.
I’m just sure this can be accomplished.
I continue to look for the way…
Thanks!
On Fri 22 Apr 2016 01:46:01 AM CDT, SomeSuSEUser wrote:
OK I’ve worked with this a little more and have read some more…
dev/video0 is the device I take it. I see references to that in
different places.
That refers to the physical “stick in the socket” in my rudimentary
understanding.
I’ve not been successful with VLC yet for some reason but Kaffeine plays
Over the Air TV signals … that part is fine.
But this device has not only the connector for the antenna, but also
another connector that you can plug in RCA / SVideo inputs for the
purpose of recording off of a VCR for instance to your harddrive.
So I looked at the screenshots of the Windows based control software
from Hauppauge and note that there is a panel where you make selections
about whether you’re processing TV analog, TV Digital, Digital QAM or
the holy grail… External Audio/Video Sources.
So I suppose what I’m trying to do, is not possible to do other than by
having some control software to make the selection…?
No command to issue manually to tell the device dev/video0 which input
source you want it to feed the PC?
Appreciate the help to this point.
I’m just sure this can be accomplished.
I continue to look for the way…
Thanks!
Hi
Well /dev/videoX should be the device, is there a
webcam on the system, if so that will probably be
video0, /dev/dvb/adapterX should be the tv…?
In vlc I can use it to capture either via vide0 for the webcam, video1
for the capture device?
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