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I have an happauge impactvcb and I am using the S-video input and a audigy se for sound capture. If I display the input live I get sound, but if I try to record the stream to a file (MPEG-2 protocol) I get a picture, but no sound on playback. Below are the logs for the run - brombo@TV:~/Software/vlc...

I am capturing video from S-video capture board (NTSB). My goal is to preserve the videos as dvd's that I can play on a standard dvd player. What format should I save the stream output in to preserve the highest quality when translated onto dvd's (reduce the number of translations)? Can I save it im...

I have solved my problem. On the command line 'vlc --v4l2-input 2' works to set the s-video input on the video capture board input, but using the gui control panel under 'media->open caputure device->advanced options' to set input does not (in fact I am not sure anything in that control panel works ...

Additional information. I tried using the composite inputs of the video card and one of them worked. The problem is definitely setting the correct input of the video capture board.

I am trying to use VLC to capture output from s-video. I am using a hauppage inpactvcb with one s-video and three composite inputs. The only video input on my computer is /dev/video0 (running ubuntu intrepid amd64, v4l2 is installed). The output from the verizon set-top-box is NTSC (tvtime and xawtv...

I also tested composite input. Both s-video and composite work with tvtime, xawtv, and cheese but not with vlc. Note that the version of vlc I used was obtained with 'sudo apt-get install vlc'.

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I am trying to use VLC to capture output from s-video. I am using a hauppage inpactvcb with one s-video and three composite inputs. The only video input on my computer is /dev/video0 (running ubuntu intrepid amd64, v4l2 is installed). The output from the verizon set-top-box is NTSC (tvtime and xawtv...