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From: Nicholas Esborn <nick@netdot.net>
To: Lars Eggert <larse@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