Record from RTE player to DVD?

Anthonyk2010

Anyone know if you can record from RTE player to a dvd?

If so how?

kelsca

search ebay for " vga to composite converter " about €20

Anthonyk2010

kelsca wrote: »

search ebay for " vga to composite coverter " about €20

Can i not just download it on to laptop and burn it on to a DVD

PogMoThoin

Not directly, it's encrypted.

Anthonyk2010

ok does that converter go between tv and dvd recorder

kelsca

rte player on pc or laptop
this device converts signal from vga out on pc or laptop to composite in on tv or dvd recorder.....this device usually ships with an audio lead which can be plugged into headphones socket on laptop and the other end into audio in of dvd recorder(as vga does not carry audio)
if dvd recorder does not have composite in(yellow=video;red and white =audio)
you can get a composite to scart adapter on ebay for less than €5.

yoyo

RTE uses RTMPE (I.e: Encrypted streaming), Its quite hard to find a program to rip it as bloody Adobe have sued the people who have made solutions previously :rolleyes: . Best bet is to use a screen recorder!

Nick

kelsca

yoyo wrote: »

RTE uses RTMPE (I.e: Encrypted streaming), Its quite hard to find a program to rip it as bloody Adobe have sued the people who have made solutions previously :rolleyes: . Best bet is to use a screen recorder!

Nick

Do you know of any screen recorder software which will actually capture streaming video.I have tried Gadwin but I cannot get it to capture programmes from rte player or bbc iplayer .
Any suggestions?Preferably freeware.

yoyo

kelsca wrote: »

Do you know of any screen recorder software which will actually capture streaming video.I have tried Gadwin but I cannot get it to capture programmes from rte player or bbc iplayer .
Any suggestions?Preferably freeware.

There are ones like Replay media catcher out there, not free though

Nick

Johnboy1951

This might do it ...... free for personal use
http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html?gclid=COajkpTO-KwCFQoa4QodEhYrYQ

I have no experience of this software ..... as I have no problem recording the screen using Linux .....

market_garden

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

This might do it ...... free for personal use
http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html?gclid=COajkpTO-KwCFQoa4QodEhYrYQ

I have no experience of this software ..... as I have no problem recording the screen using Linux .....

Which Linux application do you use for this?

Johnboy1951

market_garden wrote: »

Which Linux application do you use for this?

RecordMyDesktop would be one I would suggest looking at.

Of late I use a script I found called 'screencast' ..... this depends on PulseAudio, & ffmpeg and a few others.

Here is the script ..... I think I may have changed some parameters for my own preference, so you might need to make some small changes if you use it.

Hope that helps

#!/bin/bash

# Version 1.02
# Modifications by brousch (Ben Rousch, brousch@gmail.com):
#     Added -a option to allow different aspect ratios (4:3 default)
#
# Version 1.01
# Modifications by brousch (Ben Rousch, brousch@gmail.com):
#     Upped it to 30 FPS capture
#     Added OpenShot-preferred codecs output section (mp4/mpeg4/faac)
#
# Version 1.0
# Original script is from http://okiebuntu.homelinux.com/blog/?p=175

# list of programs we depend on
progs="xdpyinfo grep head sed ffmpeg pacat parec sox"

# check for programs we depend on
result=0
for prog in $progs
do
  type -p $prog > /dev/null
  if (( $? != 0 )); then
    echo "Error: Cannot find required program '$prog'"
    result=1
  fi
done
if (( $result != 0 )); then
  exit 1
fi

screenSize="640x480" # default if we cant detect it
screenOffset="0,0" # default to top-left corner
frameRate="30" # default frame rate
baseName="capture" # default base filename for capture
aspectRatio="4:3" # default aspect ratio (16:9 is other common ratio)

# attempt to detect the dimension of the screen for the default
dimensions=`xdpyinfo | grep 'dimensions:' | head -1 | \
  sed -e 's/^.* \([0-9]\+x[0-9]\+\) pixels.*$/\1/'`
if [[ "$dimensions" =~ [0-9]+x[0-9]+ ]]; then
  screenSize=$dimensions
fi

# collect command line settings
while getopts 'hs:o:t:a:p' param ; do
  case $param in
    s)
      screenSize="$OPTARG"
      ;;
    o)
      screenOffset="$OPTARG"
      ;;
    t)
      timeToRecord="$OPTARG"
      ;;
    a)
      aspectRatio="$OPTARG"
      ;;
    *)
      echo ""
      echo "$0 - records screencast"
      echo ""
      echo "$0 [options] [base-filename]"
      echo ""
      echo "options:"
      echo "	-h            show brief help"
      echo "	-s <size>     screensize to record as <width>x<height>"
      echo "	-o <offset>   offset off recording area as <xoffset>,<yoffset>"
      echo "	-t <time>     time to record (in seconds)"
      echo "    -a <aspect>   aspect ratio to use (4:3 default, 16:9 also common"
      echo ""
      exit 0
      ;;
  esac
done

shift $(( $OPTIND - 1 ))

# determine basename of files
if [ -n "$1" ] ; then
  baseName="$1"
fi

echo ""
echo "Size = $screenSize"
echo "Offset = $screenOffset"
echo "Aspect Ratio = $aspectRatio"
echo "Rate = $frameRate"
echo "Filename = $baseName"

# get ready to start recording
echo ""
if [ -n "$timeToRecord" ]; then
  echo "Preparing to capture for $timeToRecord seconds."
else
  echo "Preparing to capture."
  echo "Press ENTER when finished capturing."
fi
sleep 3
echo ""

# start playing silence to make sure there is always audio flowing
pacat /dev/zero &
pidSilence=$!

# starts recording video using x11grab to make mpeg2video
ffmpeg -y -an \
  -s "$screenSize" -r "$frameRate" -f x11grab -i :0.0+"$screenOffset" \
  -s "$screenSize" -r "$frameRate" -aspect "$aspectRatio" -vcodec mpeg2video \
  -sameq -f mpeg2video "$baseName.mpeg" &
pidVideo=$!

# starts recording raw audio
parec --format=s16le --rate=44100 --channels=2 $baseName.raw &
pidAudio=$!

echo ""
echo "Video recording started with process ID $pidVideo"
echo "Audio recording started with process ID $pidAudio"
echo ""

# wait for recording to be done, either by timer or user hitting enter
if [ -n "$timeToRecord" ]; then
  sleep "$timeToRecord"
else
  read nothing
fi

# stop recordings
echo ""
echo "Terminating recordings ..."
kill -15 $pidVideo $pidAudio 
kill -15 $pidSilence
wait

# filter and normalize the audio
echo "" 
echo "Filtering and normalizing sound ..." 
sox --norm -s -b 16 -L -r 44100 -c 2 "$baseName.raw" "$baseName.wav"  highpass 65 lowpass 12k

# encode video and audio into avi file
#echo "" 
#echo "Encoding to final avi ..." 
#ffmpeg -isync -i "$baseName.wav" -i "$baseName.mpeg" -acodec mp2 -ab 192k -vcodec copy "$baseName.avi"

# convert to ogg - to turn on uncomment next three lines
#echo""
#echo "convert to theora"
#ffmpeg2theora "$baseName.avi" -o "$baseName.ogv"

# convert avi to flv - to turn on uncomment next three lines
#echo""
#echo "convert to theora"
# ffmpeg -i "$baseNamee.avi" -ab 56 -ar 44100 -b 200 -r 15 -s 320x240 -f flv  "$baseNamee.flv"

# convert video and audio to mp4 with mpeg4 video and libfaac audio
echo ""
echo "Encoding to final mp4 with MPEG4 and FAAC ..."
ffmpeg -isync -i "$baseName.wav" -i "$baseName.mpeg" -acodec libfaac -ab 192k -vcodec mpeg4 -sameq "$baseName.mp4"

echo ""
echo "DONE! Final media written in file $baseName.mp4"

echo ""
## We should delete the temporary files here
# the .raw was converted to .wav and then this was muxed with .mpeg and output as .mp4
# $baseName.mpeg; $baseName.wav, & $baseName.raw

exit 0

EDIT:

I should add here that when recording an Irish DTT channel programme, I use a €15 DTT dongle and either Kaffeine or VLC and record direct.
Recently I have been checking out Me-TV, which has a more useful interface than either of the others.