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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 22:06:39 -0500
From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net>
To: Steve Thrower <sthrower@bellsouth.net>
Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Capture Mpeg
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Steve Thrower:
 |   Dear Mr. Hopper, I don't know how to program but would like to get my
 |   Hauppauge winTv card to capture in mpeg,Do you know how I can get a
 |   program that will do this?

If you're running FreeBSD, just install the "fxtv" package and run "fxtv".
Check out the docs at:

      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fxtv/README

Briefly, use File->Save Video As...

See section 3.0 of the README for tips on saving video.  For max bandwidth,
capture using the IYUV format.  Due to mpeg_encode limitations, capture at
24, 25, or 30 fps (whatever works best for your available disk bandwidth).

Also, if you have multiple hard disks, you may find it useful to specify
capture files on multiple disks.  E.g.:

   Fxtv.videoCapFile1:  /data/00-CAPTURE/fxtv.cap
   Fxtv.videoCapFile2:  /32_share/00-CAPTURE/fxtv.cap
   !Fxtv.videoCapFile3:  /share_bak/00-CAPTURE/fxtv.cap

One other tip.  For reasons I need to track down, using the "MPEG" target
doesn't always work.  Instead, capture using the "MPEG Ready" target, and
after Recording and hitting "Stop", run the .sh script fxtv creates to do
the actual encoding.

Let me know how it goes!

Randall


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