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GNU/Linux VCR HOWTO: A Quick Guide to Using Your Linux Machine as a VCR

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 6, 2001

[ Thanks to Twivel
for this link. ]

“Setting up a Linux VCR turned out to be a bit easier than I
thought it would, but it did take a little time and research. I
decided to publish my results so others would benefit from the
research I’ve done. There are probably many other ways to do this
under Linux, I just happened to get these tools to work well for
me.”

“Requirements:

  • A TV Tuner card supported by video4linux. I have a Hauppauge
    WinTV card.
  • avifile-0.53.5/ the Win32 codec video player for linux.
  • The VCR 1.04 Frame grabbing program.
  • A kernel configured to use your TV Tuner Card (bttv in my
    case)
  • The xawtv package that comes with most linux distributions.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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