From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 14:12:49 2005 Return-Path: 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 E2F4716A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:12:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from titan.whee.org (titan.whee.org [207.195.206.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA1743D1D for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:12:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adam@whee.org) Received: from titan.whee.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by titan.whee.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j12Dxp3f003054 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:59:51 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (adam@localhost) by titan.whee.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) with ESMTP id j12DxoS2003051 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:59:50 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.whee.org: adam owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:59:50 -0600 (CST) From: Adam Maloney X-X-Sender: adam@titan To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050201164641.E64418@atlantis.403forbidden.net> Message-ID: References: <20050201164641.E64418@atlantis.403forbidden.net> X-GPG-FINGERPRINT: E39B 8D34 5F0A EA2E 4CCA 5B1D 8D55 7C25 0061 10AF X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://www.whee.org/~adam/adam-whee-org-pubkey.asc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: Hardware recommendations for MythTV/FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:12:50 -0000 On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Steven S. wrote: > build and did not try the latest. Instead I switched to Freevo. The web based Freevo - yeah, that's the other one I looked at. > The biggest downside is I cannot get ffmpeg, mencoder nor transcode to work > well enough with the pvr-250 so I wrote a dirty little shell script to cat > the cxm device to the filesystem. It works but I wish I could alter the bit > rate the pvr card outputs at, 10mbit resolution creates 4gig/hr files at full > NTSC size. Couldn't you cat it directly to mplayer or something, and have mplayer convert to a smaller format? > For the most part the pvr-250 is plug and play. Most of the tuners are > supported so you should be okay. I've not fiddled with source selection, from > what I gather from reply's here it seems to be hit or miss, oddly. I would > guess it would work. Unless it doesnt. That's kind of what I suspected...everyone is pretty sure it will work fine, but no one wants to out-right guaranty it :) But unless I hear any real negative feedback from others, I think my mind is made up on the PVR-250. Now...where to buy? Thanks for the response!