Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:27:39 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Gregory W Lovell <glovell@ecr.mu.oz.au> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Recording TV using a BT878 based card Message-ID: <XFMail.20010618122739.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.95.1010617020720.1001482A-100000@gromit.ecr.mu.oz.au>
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On 16-Jun-2001 Gregory W Lovell wrote: > I'm in the process of building a FreeBSD server which will act as an > internet gateway for my network. While doing this, I've come up with the > idea of using the server to record programs off free-to-air TV to be > watched on other computers. Does software exist which would allow me to > program what I would like to record in advance? As the system resources > are quite limited, I don't really want to use an X-based application. > Would this kind of thing be possible on a Pentium 133 (simply capturing TV > at approx. VCD resolution in uncompressed form, for later encoding) ? Any > help would be greatly appreciated. Well there is a program for linux which does this, but unfortunatly it uses the Video4Linux API which FreeBSD doesn't support :( I guess a P133 would be too slow to dump the data to disk but I'm not sure. You would definatly need DMA capable disks, and compressing it first would help (but then you'd need more CPU and RAM :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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