[MEncoder-users] Recording TV with WinTV bt878

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 02 December 2004 at 22:02, Barton Bosch wrote:
> I recently added a Hauppauge WinTV GO-Plus tuner card (model #1033) 
> to my system and have been trying to record from it on RH9 and FC2.
> 
> So far I have managed to use mplayer to watch tv with audio on my 
> FC2 installation.  However, as I later read in the FAQ, mencoder 
> does not record any audio signal.

Fortunately, that FAQ entry is outdated and no longer correct.

> From the other reading that I have done I gather that it is 
> possible to record audio and video from the tv card by using the 
> btaudio driver.  Is that correct?

Actually, both ways work. That is, recording from line-in and from
btaudio, though I haven't tried it for some time now.

> I ask because it appears that I am at an impasse.  The RH 9 kernel 
> has the btaudio driver compiled but DAG's recent RPM of mplayer 
> crashes when trying to watch tv from my tuner card.

Don't use DAG's RPMs, use our official packages.

R.

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