From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 22:49:04 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 94EC416A516 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:49:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net (mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7871043D1F for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:49:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beaverm@corp.earthlink.net) Received: from eocpc16.noc.earthlink.net ([207.69.180.50] helo=EOCPC16) by mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CKljw-00068L-A8; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:49:00 -0700 From: "Mark Beaver" To: "'Tim Aslat'" , Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:48:59 -0400 Message-ID: <013d01c4b7c0$27bb32c0$32b445cf@EOCPC16> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 In-Reply-To: <20041022080843.6f45779b@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> Importance: Normal X-ELNK-Trace: 83936d1c7f8fa5c39649176a89d694c0f43c108795ac4507064a0c2345448c9e54c92e678ae3b193350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 207.69.180.50 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 22:49:04 -0000 What about for a front-end on this (mythtv, Freevo)? Currently I'm going to do recording on a different machine (till I can = get a 350PVR) and just wanna build out the watching portion with a menuing = system on BSD. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Tim Aslat Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 6:39 PM To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question for PVR 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 --=20 Tim Aslat Spyderweb Consulting http://www.spyderweb.com.au Phone: +61 0401088479 _______________________________________________ freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"