(C) Martin Väth (martin at mvath.de). This project is under the BSD license 2.0 (“3-clause BSD license”). SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause

Frontends for using mplayer/mencoder, ffmpeg/libav, or tzap/czap as video recorder.

The POSIX scripts video{,encode}.{mplayer,ffmpeg} are wrappers for mplayer/mencoder ffmpeg/libav to record from TV or to improve the encoding (in possibly several passes), respectively.

In addition there are the scripts sleepto and videorecord.{mplayer,ffmpeg} which can help you to start video.{mplayer,ffmpeg} at an appropriate time.

Finally, there is a dvb-t/dvb-c script which allows you to start tzap/czap at an appropriate time with appropriate options.

To get help, run in a shell e.g.

• video.mplayer -\? (-h is reserved for hue)
• videoencode.mplayer -h
• videorecord.mplayer -h
• dvb-t -h
• dvb-c -h
• sleepto -h

If you use dvb-t/dvb-c with completion, I recommend to enable case-insensitive matching in zsh by putting the line

zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list '' 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'

into your ~/.zshrc.

You need push.sh from https://github.com/vaeth/push (v2.0 or newer) in your $PATH. If you want that the hard status line is set, also the title script from https://github.com/vaeth/runtitle (version >=2.3) is required in your $PATH.

Since v15.0, a patched czap is supported which can directly output to a file. The corrsponding patch can be found here: https://github.com/vaeth/portage-env-mv/raw/master/env/patches/linuxtv-dvb-apps-czap-record.patch This is safer than the previous workaround to run a cat command. The script will autodetect whether the patch is available. Option -P or the poorman variable in etc/videodefaults can be used to force the old behaviour. Setting poorman=false can be set to skip the test.

To install these scripts simply copy the content of bin into your $PATH and the content of etc into /etc or also into your $PATH. The latter is supposed to be modified to the defaults which you want (e.g. matching your hardware). To obtain support for zsh completion, you can copy the content of zsh/ into a directory of your zsh's $fpath.

For Gentoo, there is an ebuild in the mv overlay (available over layman).