Anything not to get these ENORMOUS raw avi's which are only viewable with VLC itself. Considering the large transcoding times one would even stick to the original mpeg(2)-format. The resulting files could be easily cut up and transcoded afterwards. Take the Eas圜ap stick e.g., I used it with software from Arcsoft in Windows - I'm sorry - which gave me the choice to record directly to mpeg1 or mpeg2 (also from PAL). The VLC makers say that recording like this takes the raw stream from the recorded device 'as-is' and that there is nothing to do about it.

The recording button of VLC works well many a time, but the resulting avi-files are really unacceptably large (1 min recording = 1 Gb file size here). Too messed up/complex interface, and it all also depends on the force of the used machine and the used libraries. a tv or recorder with scart/AV/composite/s-video to usb (v4l).īut also VLC is far from ideal. VLC is probably the only relativily decent thing Linux has for recording from e.g.

h/x264 mp4/mkv video with the usually well-corresponding aac-audio codec means havoc in VLC. Try the regular mpeg audio codec with any video format whenst recording-converting with VLC.