From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 22:38:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0352016A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:38:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from greenhill.txc.net.au (greenhill.txc.net.au [202.61.171.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E70EE43D3F for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:38:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tim@spyderweb.com.au) Received: from bofh.spyderweb.com.au (static-9.235.240.220.dsl.comindico.com.au [220.240.235.9]) i9LMcjdF016162 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:08:46 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from tim@spyderweb.com.au) Received: from spyderweb.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bofh.spyderweb.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id i9LMchJn048355 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:08:45 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from tim@spyderweb.com.au) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:08:43 +0930 From: Tim Aslat To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041022080843.6f45779b@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> In-Reply-To: <008a01c4b716$14f80aa0$32b445cf@EOCPC16> References: <008a01c4b716$14f80aa0$32b445cf@EOCPC16> Organization: Spyderweb Consulting X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12b (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Question for PVR X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:38:47 -0000 In the immortal words of "Mark Beaver" ... > What software is the most reliable for recording and playing back (not > necessarily the same) and the front end. Depends on your hardware. If you have a Hauppauge PVR 250/350 and John Wehle's driver port installed, then you can just use "dd" from the raw device and have a very clean MPEG2 stream. On the other hand, if you have a capture card based on the BrookTree chipsets, then you can use mencoder/mplayer or fxtv for viewing/capture and playback. > I've still considering my options for the project, and want to base my > info off of that. My personal recommendation is go for the Hauppauge cards, I have a PVR 350 and it just works beautifully. Also, try searching the list archives. This has been discussed quite a bit over the past year or so. Cheers Tim -- Tim Aslat Spyderweb Consulting http://www.spyderweb.com.au Phone: +61 0401088479