From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 19:33:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: multimedia@freebsd.org 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 DE43616A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:33:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@gimbo.org) Received: from kirk.giovannelli.it (dns01.ablia.net [83.149.160.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00BD343D48 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:33:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@gimbo.org) Received: from usul.giovannelli.it (freebsd.giovannelli.com [83.149.149.149]) by kirk.giovannelli.it (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0HJWekN033462; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:32:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@gimbo.org) Message-Id: <7.0.0.16.2.20060117201708.04d39660@gimbo.org> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.0.16 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:28:29 +0100 To: Arne Woerner , multimedia@freebsd.org From: Gianmarco Giovannelli In-Reply-To: <20060117090457.47301.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <7.0.0.16.2.20060117091949.03bd8b58@giovannelli.it> <20060117090457.47301.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Milter: Spamilter (Reciever: kirk.giovannelli.it; Sender-ip: 83.149.149.149; Sender-helo: usul.giovannelli.it; ) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV devel-20051108/1244/Tue Jan 17 09:46:07 2006 on kirk.giovannelli.it X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: Re: make a pvr X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:33:11 -0000 At 10.04 17/01/2006, Arne Woerner wrote: >--- Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >> I'd like to made a personal video recorder >> and I am guessing which hardware may I buy >> for the video recording. >> >If you use a fast box, you do not need a TV card that does >hardware MPEG encoding. I personally use two boxes (a very old >slow box (Pentium 166MHz P54C) for a hauppauge PVR 250 (that box >needs special care regarding the network traffic while the PVR >card is active; seems to be a problem with the old box... :-)) ) >and my newer box (Athlon XP 2400+) for a pinnacle PCTV rave and a >Hauppauge WinCast/TV, so that I can record 3 channels at the same >time (1 in good quality 720x576 pixel >and two in less quality 448x336), but then I cannot watch TV. :-)) Hi Arne, thanks for your kind, may I do some more questions ? If I got a pvr 250/350 I can use the mpeg encoding of the card to record the tv (or other video source I suppose). Is there similar hw supported by FreeBSD that I can buy if I am not able to find these two (250/350) ? If I use a fast box I can buy a simple tv card (i.e PCTV rave or Hauppauge WinCast/TV) and then use somekind of programs (which ? :-) to save the video in mpeg format. Any tips on hw well supported ones ? Which program should I use ? Freevo ? Thanks very much for your attention. Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://utenti.gufi.org/~gmarco/