[MPlayer-dvb] Record a transport stream with an USB2 tv card

[Nico Sabbi]

Abdou NIANG wrote:

>Hi everybody
>I'm working on a multimedia linux kernel project 
>At the end of the project we will be able to scan dvb-t channels, see channels, record transport streams  
>for the developpemnt i use the mandriva 2006 release (kernel 2.6.12).
>I've installed dvbstream, dvb-apps, dvbsnoop, libdvb,...
>
>Everything is working but i want to record a transport stream and not one program stream with my Hauppauge Win TV Nova-T-USB2 tv card using dvbstream but my output file is always empty.
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>The scan (with dvbscan) works well and i can watch dvb-t channels in mplayer
>
>I've tested several commands such as:
>        dvbstream -f 490000000 -o 8192 > /tmp/test.ts
>         (...)
>
>I've seen in the dvbstream package (dvbstream.c) that the code have to read the buffer value for doing its treatment.
>  
>Does anyone can help me?
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that dvbstream command alreay does what you want, provided that the drivers
for your card permit to catch the whole TS when you select pid 8192.

Can you explain a bit better what's going wrong?