[linux-dvb] Re: AW: tzap (apps-1.1.0) modification

[Nico <nsabbi@tiscali.it>]

Schuett Thomas EXT wrote:

> Hi Bernard,
>
>  
> > I couldn't find a simple (command line) way to record a DVB-T program
> > from a channel for a set length of time eg. scheduled from an "at"
> > job.
> >    
>  
> > My quick hack to tzap.c (from linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/util/szap/tzap.c)
> > is available ...
> >    
> That's a very good idea to put it right into tzap. Very usefull, thank you!
>
> (I have left the mailing list around version 0.5, when it became imposible
> just to "cat /dev/video > file.mpg". I implemented a "time" limit just via
> "dd if=/dev/video count=..." and stood with that old version until now :-)
> At that time it was said, that one can start (and keep running) tzap to have
> /dev/ost/something cat-able. Now, after just a few years, this brilliant
> improvement to tzap shows up ;-)
>
> Disclaimer: As I don't know "the three ?zap progams" mentioned later, please 
> don't take this post too seriously in case, similar possibilities are existant 
> since a longer time already.
>
> BTW: Thanks to all. The dvb driver improved astonishing well in the last years again.
> Timeshifting (reading and writing at the same time), watching/recording several
> progs from one transponder at the same time, and not at least much more resistance
> to problematically multiplexed streams (blocks in the picture and hangings of 
> the sound) are highly appreciated topics that drag me to a recent version after all.
>
> BTW2: Backto that new tzap: Is it possible to do 2 recordings in parallel this way
> by starting 2 tzap processes? (Of course 2 progs on the same transponder)
>
> cu,
>  Thomas
>
>
>  
the last dvbstream (from cvs) can, and with 1 process; you can even 
replicate pids on multiple outputs





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