Ahhh, probably a typo below. (awxtv = xawtv) I actually have had better success with the streamer app that comes with xawtv. Here's a little shell script I wrote that I call from cron: #!/bin/sh if [ ! $3 ]; then echo "vcrrecord.sh <station> <time> <name>" exit fi STATION=$1 TIME=$2 NAME=$3 FRAMERATE=29.97 RESOLUTION="352x240" FORMAT="mjpeg" aumix -S aumix -v10 aumix -l100 v4lctl setstation $STATION DATE=`date +%H%M%m%d%y` echo "$DATE" FILENAME="/mp3/video/$NAME-$STATION-$DATE.avi" streamer -t $TIME -s $RESOLUTION -r $FRAMERATE -o $FILENAME -f $FORMAT -F stereo aumix -L ~ On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, John Miller wrote: > Invalid input source given. > Available input sources: > v4l1: VIDIOCCAPTURE in ::setCapture > v4l1: ioctl VIDIOCCAPUTRE INv4l1if::~v4l1if > v4l1: Error closing the v4lx device /dev/video: Bad file descriptor in > ::v4lxif > > The command that I entered is: > vcr -c'divx:-) low-motion' -a 'BitRate=900' -t 1m movie.avi > > If I need to give or create a device for vcr what should I look for . > > awxtv does work. > > TIA > > John Miller > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020228/558baaf6/attachment.pgp