Re: Qs re: capture card, composite input, devices

[Howard Eisenberger <howarde@gmx.net>]

On 2015-05-15, Kent West wrote:

> I currently have an RCA-style cable (yellow-tip) going from the VCR's 
> composite video output to the "Comp In" (yellow) input on the interface 
> that also has the coax connectors. I also have a stereo RCA cable (red & 
> yellow tips) going from the VCR's audio outputs to the red & white RCA 
> jacks on the same interface card.

I have an old PVR-150. Only ivtv0 in dmesg.

[   10.511469] ivtv0: Initialized card: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
[   10.511686] ivtv: End initialization
[   10.582769] ivtv-alsa: module loading...
[   11.264958] ivtv 0000:02:0b.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware v4l-cx2341x
[   11.271797] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
[   11.468147] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039

This is how I use it.

$ v4l2-ctl -i 2 ; sleep 2 ; ivtv-tune -tus-bcast -c3
Video input set to 2 (Composite 1: ok)
/dev/video0: 61.250 MHz

v4l2-ctl is in package v4l-utils

ivtv-tune is in package ivtv-utils

$ cat /dev/video0 | mplayer -cache 8192 -
to watch.

$ cat /dev/video0 > temp.mpg
to save.