[linux-dvb] Re: VDR record mpeg2 stream?

[Nico Sabbi <nsabbi@tiscali.it>]

Il lun, 2004-08-02 alle 02:51, David Maslen ha scritto:
> I use mplayer, or more precisely mencoder like this.
> 
> mencoder dvb://"$CHANNEL" -oac copy -ovc copy -quiet -endpos $TIME -o
> $BASENAME.ts
> 
> I run that from a script which runs from the crontab.
> It's like a really big video recorder.
> The output is determined by "-ocv copy" which means keep it as whatever
> it is. I believe it's an mpeg2 transport stream, which avidemux
> couldn't edit.


with that command you copy the content of audio and video streams
but in avi; if you want it it mpeg add -of mpeg.
You can't save TS with mencoder, but you can with mplayer:

mplayer dvb://"$CHANNEL" -dumpstream -dumpfile CHANNEL.ts

> 
> I tried changing the -ovc to lavc which would have produced a mpeg4 avi
> file. Unfortunately my processor isn't fast enoguh to do it on the fly,
> so I re-encode $BASENAME.ts as a nice process, as soon as it's been
> captured.
> 
> p.s. $CHANNEL is a name from my ~/.mplayer/channels.conf. It was
> generated using the scan utility.
> 
> The $TIME variable lets me record a show for an hour or 30 mins etc.
> --- strider400@optusnet.com.au wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I've been tring to find a way to record the stream to my hard drive
> > and than edit it. Will 
> > VDR do this, or is there a simpler way? I've already tried to compile
> > VDR and failed! I 
> > can't point the DVBDIR in the correct place for some reason. Is there
> > a way round 
> > this?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> =====
> --
> David..
> 
> 
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