[lug] ivtv: now what?

[Calvin Dodge]

On 6/3/07, Steve Sullivan <sullivan at mathcom.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to copy from an old analog VCR to linux disk.
> I installed ivtv on my Suse 10.2 system ... but now what?  The boot
> messages seem to indicate ivtv found the Hauppauge 250 card OK.
>
> But how do I copy from an analog VCR to disk?
> I plugged into the yellow RCA jack (I'm pretty sure that's video in
> on the Hauppauge card), but the card has no corresponding audio in (?).

Have you tried the relatively crude "cat /dev/video0 >/tmp/test.mpg"?

You'll probably have to poke at v4l2-ctl to figure out how to set the
input to composite. (I let MythTV handle that)

Calvin