Description:

bttvgrab is a program for grabbing video sequences under Linux using the
video4linux driver. Originally, it was written for bt484-based frame grabber
cards (e.g. Hauppauge WinTV, Miro PCTV ... ) and the bttv-driver from
http://www.thp-uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html, so you will get best
results when using one of them.

The goal of bttv grab is to provide high-quality grabbing suitable for
video recording. Currently, this is accomplished by trying hard not
to leave out a single frame, and to catch temporary delays by buffering
several frames. It also has synchronized sound and frame loss tracking.
The included converter bttvconvert takes care of all necessary steps to
create MPEG (1 or 2) video sequences from the grabbed frames, along with
sound conversion.

To use MPEG direct encoding features use :
ftp://ftp.mpeg.org/pub/mpeg/mssg/mpeg2vidcodec_v12.tar.gz.

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