I did say I was capturing from a TV tuner. Glad I explained it well enough that you knew what I meant Chuck Cole wrote: > Linux and TV tuners are very different things. Linux doesn't include the physical capacity to process (receive and demodulate) TV > channels, some hardware must do that. Your language isn't describing the right physical things and their interfaces. A typical VHS > tape player has a receiver for TV and delivers base video extracted (demodulated) from the TV carrier signals but does not have a > direct interface a PC can use, and this has nothing yet compatible with VLC or Linux. Eventually, an analog-to-digital conversion > must be done, and then a digital encoding that may be part of VLC may occur. You may be clear on what you seek, but your language > isn't stating that. > > Chuck > >