From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 09:39:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 017BF16A46F for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:39:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from sohara.org (sohara.org [192.220.64.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69EF443D9B for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:39:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: (qmail 72631 invoked by uid 16563); 18 Jan 2006 09:39:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df1.marelmo.com) ([194.125.49.105]) (envelope-sender ) by 192.220.64.179 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 Jan 2006 09:39:01 -0000 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:38:58 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20060118093858.58e440e6.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20060117201708.04d39660@gimbo.org> References: <7.0.0.16.2.20060117091949.03bd8b58@giovannelli.it> <20060117090457.47301.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <7.0.0.16.2.20060117201708.04d39660@gimbo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.4 (GTK+ 2.8.9; i386-pc-dragonfly1) X-Face: %]+HVL}K`P8>+8ZcY-WGHP6j@&mxMo9JH6_WdgIgUGH)JX/usO0%jy7T~IVgqjumD^OBqX, Kv^-GM6mlw(fI^$"QRKyZ$?xx/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:39:29 -0000 On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:28:29 +0100 Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > 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 ? ffmpeg (but you want to get 0.48 not 0.49pre1 which is in the current ports tree and suffers from A/V sync errors) or mencoder (from the mplayer port) or I believe transcode works these days. > :-) to save the video in mpeg format. Any tips on hw well supported ones ? A few caveats - I have two Pinnacle/Miro PCTV cards one of which has an MT2050 tuner which I still cannot drive (I haven't had time to do much with it lately though). I also briefly had a PCTV card that despite the label on the box saying BT878 contained a completely different chipset - I was able to exchange it because of this (in fact I was about to get a refund when they decided to look in the box on the shelf and found that it did have a BT878 in it so I took the replacement). I suppose the moral of the story is - try and get an arrangement where you can take the card back if you can't drive it, and if you can't then be sure to look inside the box first and make sure there is a BT878 (or Connexant 878 more likely these days but it's the same chip) and a supported tuner. -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirror Arrays The computer obeys and wins. | A better way to focus the sun You lose and Bill collects. | licences available see | http://www.sohara.org/