Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:27:02 -0700 From: Nicholas Esborn <nick@netdot.net> To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-based PVR? Message-ID: <20030808162702.GG5434@carbon.berkeley.netdot.net> In-Reply-To: <3F33C044.507@isi.edu> References: <3F33C044.507@isi.edu>
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Lars, I was able to script up automatic recording using ffmpeg, which supports the FreeBSD bktr driver. The only hard part was finding a utility to change the channel. I eventually switched to Linux for this task, because I could not see TV-out support on the horizon for FreeBSD. -nick On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:22:44AM -0700, Lars Eggert wrote: > Hi, > > are there any Tivo-like personal-video-recorders for FreeBSD? > > Linux has MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org/) and Freevo > (http://freevo.sourceforge.net/), from what I understand they require > the video-for-Linux (V4L) API, which FreeBSD doesn't support. Right? > > Are there any other options for FreeBSD? I'd rather not start mucking > with Linux if I don't have to. > > Thanks, > Lars > -- > Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu> USC Information Sciences Institute
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