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Capturing and Recording Media

Figure 13.1: Actual Recording Session - note the bright green boundary box and the big arrow cursor within the "Video In" window

This section covers the areas of capturing media from the web or television by the use of recording.

Access the Record function via File → Record...The recording application really only does one thing, capture media from some external source and write it onto a file in a specified way.

Path: | output media file path |
Start time: | weekday/time of day | to begin capture
Duration: | hrs:mins:secs | until end of capture
Source: | channel/device input | selection of input subsource
Mode: | timed | use start time/duration
untimed | use transport controls

The media file will be written using the format and codec specified in the Settings → Preferences → Recording tab, which you will need to set up first. See the Settings/Preferences section for parameters. Only ffmpeg can record both audio and video simultaneously, and some ffmpeg formats require too much cpu to do a realtime compression. A setting which is more likely to be usable (requires less cpu/memory for realtime encoding) is ffmpeg → qt → mp4.qt with bitrates like audio/256000 & video/6000000.

Subsections

- Record Web Media in real-time
- Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
  - Overview
  - Initial Setup for DVB Capture
  - Watching TV using CINELERRA-GG
  - Recording TV to Capture at some Future Time via Batch
  - Recording Immediately to Capture a current TV program
  - Record “on the fly” Table of Contents (TOC)
  - Watching a Previously Recorded TV program
  - Dual Screen Mode
  - Remote Control for DVB
  - Android Remote Control for DVB
  - Setup a Remote Control Device
- The commercial DB
- Transfer VHS/DVD Media or Video8/Hi8 Tapes into CINELERRA-GG
  - Use Case #1 – EasyCap Model # DC60
  - Use Case #2 – Hauppauge WinTV-HVR