[Discuss] meeting

[Peter]

>>> On a different note... what interests do we have regarding
>>> Linux?  In
>>> other words what topics should we explore in the future?  I
>>> personally
>>> use Linux for video.  Primarily I digitize movies from
>>> cable, strip the
>>> commercials, add a menu and turn the result into a DVD.
>>>       
>> Interesting.  How is it done?  What hardware & software is involved?
>>
>> My 'thing' is to get (mostly) BBC programs via uknova and convert the files
>> into something my dvd player can understand.  BBC has a lot of excellent
>> material, and as long as it is not available commercially anywhere, I do not
>> believe there are any legal issues involved.
>>
>>     
For hardware I use a Hauppauge PVR150 TV card.  It works out of the box
in OpenSUSE.
You need the IVTV package to control the card.

http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page

Changing channels and recording, or viewing is best done with the
command line.
To tune a channel, ivtv-tune -cXX (XX=the channel number)
To view a channel,  mplayer /dev/video
To record to the hard drive, cat /dev/video >yourfile.mpg

The output of the TV card is streaming .mpg, so resulting file is easily
and accurately edited with DVBcut.

http://dvbcut.sourceforge.net/

To author and create an .iso image of the edited video, DeVeDe can be used.

http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html

And of course to burn the image, K3B.

Because I use OpenSUSE 11.0 all the software is available and easily
installable using Yast.

It's possible to make DVD's from anything that can be converted to .mpg
or .avi, streaming flash (.flv) files from European broadcasters, or
YouTube for instance.

As far as copyright issues are concerned, my understanding of the recent
changes in the law is that if it's for private personal use and not
distributed in any way to others, then almost any broadcast is fair
game; no different from a VCR or Tivo etc.

If others are interested maybe I can expand a little more at a NANLUG
meeting.

Peter