Love to but I deleted them from vdr already.  I don't know if FFMPEG was actually doing anything because I couldn't get anything to show -- it was encoding.. what who knows.  I'm in Canada btw -- is that the same area?

I have a Hauppauge WinTV to GO card -- basic analog no encoder and not supported by ivtv.  Apparently its much easier if you have a card supported by ivtv.

> KOMOTEST1:4:B7C12D0:C:0:301:300:0:32001:0:0:0:0

I've made some changes to the above that I used to get some output.  I also use C0 rather then C12 but that varies depending on your card. 
You also need to put in a frequency instead of the '4'.  I don't recall the program I used to get them but I know xawtv will show them as well.

When you run VDR at the console, you should see it trying to start ffmpeg -- does it give you an error? I also had issue where the plugin had configured PAL resolutions and no NTSC resolutions so FFMPEG had issues with the mixed command line for NTSC but a PAL resolution that was incompatible.  It involved modifying the source code to get it past that point.  If this is the blocker, it should give you an error in the vdr output though...

Also, did you apply all the recommended patches from the vdr wiki page?  I use the German pages because the english ones are way out of date for most of the plugins.

Norm

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:55 -0700, Simon Baxter wrote: 
> I actually got ffmpeg to do an encoding session but nothing ever came out 
> to
> display.
>
> I gave up and use Freevo as a frontend, with TVTIME for my low-end analog 
> card, and vdr-xine to connect to anther box running my VDR to sat.
>
> Norm

So you managed to get ffmpeg to record a stream from VDR/analogTV ????

Could you send me your channels.conf (looks like you're in the same part of 
the world as me :))?  What type of card are you using?