VLC HowTo/Use a capture card

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The following describes how to watch TV with your DVB-Card

(tested with DVB-T and the Windows-Version of VLC)

  • find out the frequencies of your location
  • go to File/Open CaptureCard
  • choose DVB DirectShow
  • check your kind of card (DVB-S -C -T)
  • choose first frequency and bandwidth
  • click on play
  • when the channel plays, select playlist
  • rightclick on the item, which is playing and select information
  • go to stream
  • here you can find all broadcast-channels with their service-ID
  • write them down
  • go to File/Open CaptureCard
  • in the option-line at the bottom append a space (if not there) a : and the keyword "program=", followed by one of the service-IDs
  • it should look like: ...300ms :program=16214
  • click on play
  • that's your channel
  • now you can rename this playing item of the playlist to your station-name
  • and the same with the next service-ID
  • and so on with the next frequency

Don't forget to save your playlist!

Have fun!

Spielmops


The minimal command to transcode from a capture card to a portable MPEG file is thus: 

vlc v4l:// :v4l-norm=1: '--sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp1v,vb=2030,audio-sync,acodec=mpga,ab=192,channels=2}:std{access=file,mux=mpeg1,url="out_file.mpg"}'

These MPEG files have been verified to work with:

  • Windows Media Player 10
  • Apple QuickTime Player 7
  • XINE 1.0
  • ffplay
  • xanim 2.80 (no audio)
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