Mplayer does quite a good job as tv to divx capture as well as tv viewing
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:44, Ambar Roy wrote: > > What are the experience and recommendations of the > > list about TV tuner card. I plan to buy one and use on > > gnu-linux. i believe one can also do conversion across > > medias i.e. VHS to CD etc. > The Pinnacle TV tuners give the best quality. And they are quite widely > supported on Linux and Windows. I have a Pixelview TV tuner, and I find it > ok, nothing great. > > The following part is completely OT, but still ;) > In case you haven't used a TV tuner card, then here are my observations: > 1. Linux supports most of them, but the apps under linux leave a lot of room > for improvement. > > 2. The best app that I found for viewing live TV is Dscaler. It is a GPLed > tv viewer app that does deinterlacing and a lot of other nifty things. Last > time I checked, Dscaler worked only under windows :( > > 3. For recording, I find Cyberlink PowerVCR quite a good app. It could do > real time MPEG 2 compression & playback on my older Athlon 1GHz system quite > easily at the best sensible quality settings. The program can support better > quality for recording than what my TV tuner card can generate. PowerVCR is a > commercial app that runs on windows. The app has not been upgraded for over > a year now, so there can be better ones available. My new celeron 1.7ghz cpu > can't seem to take the load of powervcr! PowerVCR has a mode to directly > capture to VCD/SVCD spec MPEG streams, so with a fast computer, you don't > need to recompress the video to create VCDs. > > 4. Under windows 2000/XP, you will need to junk the software that comes with > most tv tuner cards, and use third party software and drivers. For drivers > under windows 2000/XP check out www.iulab.com and btwincap.sourceforge.net > both sites have different drivers. btwincap is oss, but the last time i > checked it out, it didn't support dscaler, and the system wud hang when > dscaler was run. For viewing don't look at anything but dscaler. > > 5. Most software for TV tuners don't recognize the indian cable tv > frequencies. Use UK cable frequency table in your software. > > 6. For TV, forget using a antenna. And even for cable TV, the tuner cards > require a higher signal than most TVs. My cable walla was quite unhappy with > the kind of signal my tv tuner card requires for decent pics. > > 7. My limited experience with a Celeron 1.7GHz and a Athlon 1GHz CPU tells > me that the Athlon 1GHz was much better for realtime video compression. > > 8. If you wan't to do regular VHS->VCD conversions, then skip the TV tuner > card, and get a card with a hardware compressor. You can get cards that are > designed specially for this usage. > > Ambar > PS: I haven't checked out anything under linux for some time, if there is > any good sw under linux, some1 pls tell me. > > ================================================ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. > Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org >
