[07:38] <Takyoji> It would be wonderful if I could find a straightforward method for DVRing from my TV tuner card.
[07:39] <Takyoji> I can only really watch and control my TV tuner card in tvtime; I have difficulties within VLC. Additionally, the audio is separate, there's an audio output on the TV tuner card that I have looped to a Line In port on my motherboard.
[07:40] <tonyyarusso> dd if=/dev/tv0 of=/home/takyoji/Videos/ScrubsSes4Ep12.raw
[07:40] <Takyoji> and for the audio?
[07:40] <Takyoji> Otherwise it appears as /dev/video0
[07:40] <tonyyarusso> same thing!  Combine it later.
[07:41]  * tonyyarusso is (mostly) kidding
[07:41] <Takyoji> So it's as simple as using dd then?
[07:42] <tonyyarusso> I have no idea.
[07:42] <tonyyarusso> it might be
[08:56] <kermit> dd is overrated
[08:56]  * kermit prefers cat
[09:00] <Takyoji> Even though binary information wouldn't be all that useful to see. :P
[09:03] <tonyyarusso> Bah.  I have 199 ebooks on my reader.  Now I can't go to bed until I find one more.
[09:18] <kermit> Takyoji: see what binary information?
[09:18] <kermit> i cant asssociate that statement with anything said
[09:45] <Takyoji> Of tonyyarusso suggesting to use dd for saving raw binary output from my TV tuner card video output.
[21:33] <kermit> i'm still confused
[21:34] <kermit> all video would be binary
[22:56] <Takyoji> Using 'cat' displays the information being copied, correct?
[22:59] <kermit> it can, but i'd only use it for text
[23:00] <kermit> or, do that for text, with cat
[23:00] <kermit> dumping binary data to a terminal is a bad idea
[23:06] <Obsidian1723> yeah, bad idea...
[23:07] <Obsidian1723> The terminal isn't like the Windows command shell where you can harmlessly type stuff. In Linux, that's programming things.
[23:08] <kermit> i think 'type binaryfile' would have the same results in windows terminal?
[23:08] <kermit> (btw putty is MUCH faster than windows terminal.. at lesat in XP)
[23:08] <kermit> lesat/least
[23:09] <Obsidian1723> XP = dead OS
[23:09] <Takyoji> kermit, the context I was talking in was about all this time was about copying and storing raw data from my TV tuner card; tonyyarusso jokingly implied it was as simple as using 'dd'. And then you interject (if that's the proper term) with: "kermit: dd is overrated"
[23:09] <Takyoji> "* kermit prefers cat"
[23:10] <kermit> i would use cat for that
[23:10]  * Obsidian1723 pets cat
[23:11] <Takyoji> Then I was extrapolating upon what you were saying then.
[23:11]  * Takyoji writes dog
[23:11] <Obsidian1723> just doun't $ touch self
[23:11] <Obsidian1723> he
[23:11] <Takyoji> oh wait, stupid me; I was thinking of tee
[23:11] <Obsidian1723> h
[23:12] <Obsidian1723> 4pm. time for tee