V4l2-ctl -list-inputs display the list of all video inputs of your video capture card V4l2-ctl -all display all information available about your video capture card

Write down this information for your convenient reference.) The listed audio inputs may be Tuner 0, Line In 1 1, Line In 2 2. (The listed video inputs, for example may be Tuner 0, S-Video 1, Composite 2. Or to set the video and audio inputs to the integer number which represents that input. Or to display the current video and audio inputs of your video capture card, Here are the commands that you need to list all of the video and audio inputs of your video capture card, This displays the available information about your video capture card. Type v4l2-ctl -all (Then press ENTER on your computer keyboard). Open a Linux terminal program: Select Applications, System Tools, XTerm (or UXterm). That is a lower case letter L between the 4 and the 2 in v4l2-ctl, not the number 1.) These words have approximately the same meaning. I did not see any user-friendly GUI to do this, so I needed to use the v4l2-ctl terminal program. Set the default video input of your video capture card, and set the default audio input of your video capture card. Select Applications, System tools, Preferences, Video4Linux control panel.ģ. After Linux opens, check to see if your video capture card has been detected by Linux: In my computer, the ArtistX DVD was not able to boot from my DVD writer drive, for some unknown reason,īut it did boot successfully from the DVD-ROM drive.Ģ.

If your computer is not set up to boot to your DVD-ROM drive, then you will need to change the settings in your computer's BIOS/Setup program. Insert the Linux ArtistX live DVD into your DVD-ROM drive and boot your computer. HP Media PC, 2 GB of RAM, Haupauge WinTV PVR-150 video capture card.ġ. Here's the list of supported video capture cards: Your computer needs to have one of the video capture cards which are supported by the ivtv drivers. In the package manager of some Linux distributions, ivtv-utils may simply be called ivtv. You will need to install ivtv-utils using your Linux package manager. If you are using a Linux distribution (not ArtistX) which does not already have ivtv-utils installed, VLC media player 2.05 or later version (which is already installed in ArtistX).Ī composite video cable, an RCA stereo audio cable, connected from the output connectors of your VCR to the input connectors of your computer. Linux ArtistX DVD can be downloaded from here(3.8 GB):

I tried several other Linux live CDs and live DVDs, but ArtistX was the only one that I was successful with. You don't need to install Linux to your hard drive.

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