So, for some time, I've been trying to work out a capture method from the DirecTV dvr, ongoing project is to transfer American Idol Final from this recent season and put it on DVDs for GF.
I have learned how to get a fairly high-quality mpeg2 file via composite connections using v4l2-ctl, largely helped by hints from here and here.
My next trick needs to be splitting this file into chunks that will fit on DVD+R or DVD-DL.
Anyone have a suggestion?
WinTV-500 pvr goodness
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That final episode of American Idol was two hours. Scraping a low-resolution, stuttery, unsynced audio .ogv off the dvr via a cheaper WinTV usb HVR 950 using Cheese produced a 14G file and the viewing experience of the dvd made via devede is intolerable.
However, using the composite connections from WinTV-500 and simply 'cat /dev/video0 > amidol_final.mpg' with 16:3 aspect and dvd-quality, otherwise moderate v4l2 defaults:
make about a 5.8G mpeg2 file, then 6G iso via devede, burned to DL DVD, quite acceptable quality. How it works in GF's and various players remains to be tested but splitting the file seems not so much necessary, atm.
However, using the composite connections from WinTV-500 and simply 'cat /dev/video0 > amidol_final.mpg' with 16:3 aspect and dvd-quality, otherwise moderate v4l2 defaults:
make about a 5.8G mpeg2 file, then 6G iso via devede, burned to DL DVD, quite acceptable quality. How it works in GF's and various players remains to be tested but splitting the file seems not so much necessary, atm.