Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:33:49 -0500 From: Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: homemade PVR questions Message-ID: <200603251533.54375.nb_root@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <063104E3-F7FA-4260-92F9-9A75D3B9C874@netmusician.org> References: <063104E3-F7FA-4260-92F9-9A75D3B9C874@netmusician.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Saturday 25 March 2006 15:07, Joe Auty wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm just getting ready to setup a PVR for myself on my FreeBSD > machine, but I thought I would run by my plans with you guys first > just to ensure that this will work. > > I have a satellite signal (Bell ExpressVu), it comes with a set-top > box that inputs and outputs a coax signal. I'm looking at the > Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 and using the driver for this provided in the > ports tree with MythTV. > > Really, all I need this for is recording TV shows just like we used > to use a VCR for. If I can schedule, record, save to a directory, > I'll pick up this Hauppauge card. > > Are there minimal requirements for the video and sound cards, or is > all of this handled by the Hauppauge card? Any experiences doing > something similar to what I'm doing? Any general advice? > > > Thanks! > Hi, what you wish to attempt is possible, here's my experience: I have a WinTV card and I can record with transcode (also possible with mencoder) but the problem is that whenever bktr (the wintv driver) is opened for read, the TV audio that is fed from my WinTV to my sound card thru the "line in" port is heard. That means that I can record a show (audio/video) correctly, but at the cost of hearing the audio while it is recording. Obviously annoying unless I turn off my speakers, and I haven't found a way around (playing with mixer to turn down the volume obviously turns down the recorded volume too). Playing with the WinTV in FreeBSD is tricky, but usually one can fiddle around to make it work. Post your experiences in the FreeBSD-Multimedia list if you ever attempt your project. Nicolas. -- FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #13: Sat Mar 25 09:45:35 EST 2006 root@clk01a:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A PGP? : http://www.clkroot.net/security/nb_root.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEJaky4wTBlvcsbJURAii6AKC5VQTYKqRVUdnYyndrOIWZ/spXdQCfRxLm vqxmxqfGlpGeBXSP1N2CW9Q= =WCFp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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