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ham_se17
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Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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 Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:58 pm Post subject: Bt878 capture |
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Hey all,
I have in 3-4 hours tried to google my way to use my capture tv tuner card in gentoo, with no luck.
I have tried to emerge mythtv, but it was not the tool i thought it was.
I want to use my capture card to capture video from my cam, so i can convert my video's to divx.
Which software and driver should i use to get it working?
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$ lspci | grep Bt878
01:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
01:07.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
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NeddySeagoon
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ham_se17,
In the kernel you ned Video for Linux support, bt848 (may be called bt8x8) support, i2c support and the i2c bit banging interface. When thats loaded you will get a video device /dev/v4l/video0, if its your first video device.
Your video data appears here.
Test with something simple like xawtv - emerge it if needed. | Code: | | xawtv -c /dev/v4l/video0 |
will display video from your card. Make that work before you move on.
When yon can display video, you can try to capture it. MythTV is probably overkill, mplayer has a capture mode, as do several other applications. Don't count on doing the capture and compression in real time, they are both resource hungary processes.
You may need to capture the raw video to disk and compress it later.
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