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n0gabor

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From: Hungary / Budapest

Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 95

need a good GUI app for capturing a watching TV

kdetv and tvtime are very good for watching TV, but both can't capture in the broadcast.

do you know a good app or frontend for capturing?

augustob

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From: Florianópolis, Brazil

Registered: 2006-03-17

Posts: 135

Re: need a good GUI app for capturing a watching TV

I also have interest in this, so I went looking. It appears that short of installing a full-blown PVR, we'll have to use either xawtv or one of the command-line solutions listed in:

http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/TV_Recording

augustob

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From: Florianópolis, Brazil

Registered: 2006-03-17

Posts: 135

Re: need a good GUI app for capturing a watching TV

Actually this page:

http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/TV_Viewing

Has quite a few tv viewers that claim to record. Try a few and report back so I don't have to. No, just kidding, do it for science 8)

clarence

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From: fremantle.au

Registered: 2005-10-12

Posts: 294

Re: need a good GUI app for capturing a watching TV

i found xdtv to be the best for capturing analogue tv.

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n0gabor

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From: Hungary / Budapest

Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 95

Re: need a good GUI app for capturing a watching TV

i tried XDTV, but i didn't like it, it has an ugly interface (and was wery wery slow on my A64 too!), crashed sometimes...

I tried then G4vl, its a GUI frontent to transcode, and uses the config files of xawtv, so you have to generate the channels with xawtv, then here you go...
You have to recompille transcode with --enable-v4l option in order to work with Gv4l. It much better then xdtv imho, worked pretty good 4 me.

I submitted a pkg in AUR, try it, vote for it

http://gv4l.sourceforge.net/

hirs

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Registered: 2003-10-11

Posts: 18

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Re: need a good GUI app for capturing a watching TV

Never tried, but kmplayer and vlc do the job, both has a good GUI

Cub69

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From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2006-01-20

Posts: 87

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Re: need a good GUI app for capturing a watching TV

I use Freevo, which has a recording engine.  It uses TVTime for viewing TV.  Its good in that it doesn't try and create something that doesn't already exist.  It utilizes as much of the existing stuff out there as possible, and packaging it nicely. 

I use is to view analog, epg and record analog, listen to streamcast, and to access a VDR box on my network for satellite.  Very flexible.