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As I remember (topic started more than 3 years ago), it's a problem with device. It seems to be a variable overflow in hardware sources, or something like this. We don't use HD PVR at all now, only Blackmagic devices, but trying to move forward to more specialized video capture devices, because BM h...

Sure you can use VLC on Windows platform to record from Hauppauge. I recommend to run VLC GUI mode, and go to menu Media:Convert/Save. There you can choose capture device in tabs, and that's all, if you're lucky you'll get file. Remember that you should have installed drivers for HD PVR, and suitabl...

Hi. Sometimes VLC can't recognize HD PVR header, so the best way is to use ffmpeg as bridge between HD PVR and VLC. For example, next command plays video from HD PVR: cat /dev/video0 | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f mpegts | vlc - If You want to record video, you can use both ffmpeg and vl...

Sure you can. Follow these steps: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html 1. Add PPA to your system (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lucid-bleed/ppa) 2. Update packages (sudo apt-get update) 3. Install VLC (sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse mozilla-plugin-vlc) Then you can use it from a...

I'm curious to know your results, I would probably pick up one of these PVRs myself if live streaming in VLC/ffmpeg would be possible without the need to transcode. Hi! This is awesome! With some modifications to your code I get fully-working solution! This is my steps to make working mechanism: 1....

Hi everybody. I have Hauppauge 1212 HD PVR device to realtime encoding HD-stream from HD camera (I use Canon Legria HF-S21). I have a problem to stream (with VLC) without transcoding from Ubuntu 11.04. On remote machine I get audio stream, and video size, but screen is blank (black). With recorded (...