[MEncoder-users] Recording TV with WinTV bt878

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

Hello

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

> I've had good results at 512x384 on my Athlon 1GHz with ye olde BT848
> (FlyVideo 2000S). The biggest problem was my disk which couldn't keep up
> with the bandwidth.

How did you record? Which parameters to mencoder did you use? From the 
command-line or with a GUI?

> > I am using Debian and I did anyway have a self-compiled kernel, so, cannot 
> > help you here, sorry. But, yes, to compile btaudio you need the complete 
> > kernel and you have to compile a compatible configuration with the same 
> > compiler - if you only want to add this module. "Compatible" means, 
> > critical options, like preemption, SMP / UP, high-mem, processor type must 
> > match your running kernel - if it's a 2.6.
> 
> Not entirely correct. If all that's missing is just that btaudio driver,
> you might get away with compiling just modules after configuring your
> kernel sources with exactly the same config as the running kernel and
> enabling btaudio. Of course the sources must be the same, too.

Yes, you are right. I just didn't want to explain how to compile just one 
driver:-) Sure, you could something like make *config && make modules, or 
make *config && make drivers/media/video, I think...

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski