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Date:      Sun, 6 Feb 2005 17:10:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Wehle <john@feith.com>
To:        steven@403forbidden.net
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hardware recommendations for MythTV/FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <200502062210.j16MAn26017233@jwlab.FEITH.COM>

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> /usr/local/bin/buffer < /dev/cxm0 > $1 &

Using dd usually suffices for simple capturing, though in
either case you'll probably want to use a larger buffer size
(I believe the buffer program defaults to 10k).  I use:

  dd if=/dev/cxm0 of=test.mpg bs=1m

when making test captures.  I don't suggest using buffer
sizes smaller than 64k.

-- John
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