From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Jun 16 13:42:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from kumr.lns.com (kumr.lns.com [140.174.7.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E581F37B405 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 13:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pozar@kumr.lns.com) Received: (from pozar@localhost) by kumr.lns.com (8.11.3/8.9.3) id f5GKg6012664; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 13:42:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pozar) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 13:42:06 -0700 From: Tim Pozar To: Gregory W Lovell Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recording TV using a BT878 based card Message-ID: <20010616134206.D11726@lns.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from glovell@ecr.mu.oz.au on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:13:06AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:13:06AM +1000, Gregory W Lovell wrote: > FreeBSD Multimedia, > > 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. Hmmm... It would be cool if there was support for Hauppauge's PVR card: http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr_datasheet.htm Tim -- Snail: Tim Pozar / LNS / 1978 45th Ave / San Francisco CA 94116 / USA POTS: +1 415 665 3790 Radio: KC6GNJ / KAE6247 "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." - Andrew Jackson "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite." - Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical_Essays" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message