PVRec - simple GUI interface to Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB
v0.10 - 18 July 2003
Copyright 2003 Rob Kudla <pvrec-devel@kudla.org>
PVRec is basically the smallest amount of code I could write to let myself easily record video using the PVR USB without doing so blindly. In the future I hope to include more PVR-esque features like scheduled recording, basic format conversions (i.e. Divx/Xvid instead of MPEG-2) and maybe better mplayer automation, but this should at least let you get the job done as far as getting video into your computer. Essentially, PVRec is nothing but a GUI and three pipes.
If you have any problems capturing video with it, e.g. a blank mplayer window or mplayer never comes up at all or the bytes received counter never increases, try the following:
cat /dev/usb/lp0 >myvideo.mpg
and see if that lets you get any video either. If it doesn't, then it's a problem with the driver or your PVR USB, and not this program. If it does, well, there's a reason I made this version 0.1 ;)
PVRec requires Gambas, which I have packaged for Mandrake Linux and which is available at http://gambas.sf.net. The pvrusb driver is available at http://pvrusb.sf.net. If you plan on viewing the video while you record it, you'll need mplayer as well; if you don't have a prebuilt version of mplayer for your Linux distribution, I have to pity you and hope mplayer is easier to build than it used to be.
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