Linux TV capture.

[tyggerjai]

Has anyone out there used any of the stand-alone USB TV capture boxes (or dongles, but I'd prefer compression done before it hits the PC) with Linux, preferably Ubuntu?

I don't need very good quality, just streaming video from a TV source to the EEEPC.

jai.
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Digital Terrestrial Television

[japr.livejournal.com]

I am not sure what channels you are after but it seems that you already have digital television.

http://www.macaudailytimesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4725&Itemid=28

I believe that DTT is already mpeg encoded so you might not need to worry about the compression at all if you want to use an available DTT station.

I was going to do something like this but got stuck at working out a good antenna in brunswick. It seem that where we were only one on the roof would do for al channels except SBS.

Anyway good luck.

Re: Digital Terrestrial Television

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

None of that actually helps, but perhaps I should be more verbose. I have a wireless camera/receiver that outputs NTSC on a standard RCA jack. It'll plug into a TV fine, but I want to view it on the EEEPC.

jai.
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[nigelw.livejournal.com]

I've used the WinTV USB (by Hauppauge) before, and I wouldn't recommend it.

Things to look out for:

1. USB2.0 unless you want really low-res (320x200 @ 30 fps)

2. Encoder on the device (in which case I think you're looking at using the DVB system rather than V4L system).

If you want something good (i.e. encoder on the device) you're going to pay a lot more ($400+ in AU as opposed to <$100) and you're going to have more problems finding a device that will capture composite video at all - most of the higher end devices seem to assume you'll be working with a digital video capture device (set top box or firewire DV or whatever).

[fub.livejournal.com]

I haven't used any, but you may want to check out LinuxTV. Contains, amongst others, a list of supported devices.

[drbunsen.livejournal.com]

If you can narrow down a device in the next couple of days, perhaps fizit can have a look at Changi on the way over. Assuming she's going through Changi.

[shevek.livejournal.com]

I use a Pinnacle 72e USB stick for DVB-T, but it sounds as if you have an existing source of video which you want to display, for which there are several composite-to-USB sticks available. I saw one being used by an Amiga artist to display the video output of his A1200 on an eeepc.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ryn/]

Yoyo, I'm retarded, and I just found the charger for the mp3 player. Is it too late to give it to Jess? I could just post it tomorrow?

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

She leaves at stupid oclock tomorrow morning, so unless you're in footscray tonight, seems unlikely. And I don't have her number. Stick it in the post. Will the thing work without it? What's the voltage?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ryn/]

It should have charge left on it, and you can charge it by plugging it into the computer with a USB cable, just takes ages. It says "Input: 100 -240VAC ~ 50-60Hz, 0.3A" and "Output: 5V ---- 1000mA" on it.

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, stick it on a slow boat to China. I'll charge off USB in the meantime. Cheers.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ryn/]

I can has address now please?

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

Hey, apropos of this, what is your media beast setup? Input hardware, output hardware, software, ir dongle, etc.