From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 9 09:26:04 2005 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 78C8716A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 09:26:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5370B43D31 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 09:26:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost.blackend.org [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j399OWto000601; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:24:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j399OU9T000600; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:24:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:24:30 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Tim Aslat Message-ID: <20050409092430.GA566@gothic.blackend.org> References: <20050408140100.1d4fee0e@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050408140100.1d4fee0e@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE cc: FreeBSD Multimedia Subject: Re: DVD burning question 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: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:26:04 -0000 On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:01:00PM +0930, Tim Aslat wrote: > Hi All, > > Hopefully this is the right forum for this question, if not I apologise > in advance. > > I'm trying to create a security application using FreeBSD as the base > OS, with a combination of other open source software, a video capture > card (Hauppauge PVR-350) and a couple of DVD burners. > > The people I'm developing it for want me to re-build it to enable > on-the-fly burning of the captured video stream, instead of capturing > to HDD then transcoding, etc. I'm not entirely sure this is possible, > and would like to know other people's experiences or suggestions. > You should use the same thing as some DVD video recoders: use of DVD+RW Indeed it's possible to append data to an initial data session on a DVD+RW without the pain of multisession or UDF. The result will not be a DVD-Video but a data DVD with MPEG/whatever streams/files. Have a look at the DVD+RW part of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/creating-dvds.html Marc