Recording TV Card

[Fep]

Hello!

I have just successfully installed a TV card (Pinnacle PCTV Rave, stereo).
I tried to use XawTV to record from it, but the files it generates are huge!

The size of them is just impossible, even using a low resolution (even though they're smaller in that case), and changing the output file format doesn't do much!

I think that the problem might be it could be recording using non-compressed formats.

Please help me! (and when I get good, I will answer every newbie question, I promise!)

[dark_lord_kodd]

Well at least your getting something! You should be proud!

What type of files is it outputting? Mpegs?

I believe there is an application called transcode which will convert various types of video file and hopefully would let you compress the files down a bit, have a look for that.

[Fep]

Thank you, I'll try to find that.

In fact, XawTV lets me choose between different output files formats, but not mpeg. There's AVI, Quicktime...
But They're all huge!

I tried the RPM for Zapping, but it doesn't want to install!

Any kind of further help will be welcome!