Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:59:50 -0600 (CST) From: Adam Maloney <adam@whee.org> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware recommendations for MythTV/FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.60.0502020732360.2756@titan> In-Reply-To: <20050201164641.E64418@atlantis.403forbidden.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.60.0502011233250.20906@titan> <20050201164641.E64418@atlantis.403forbidden.net>
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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!
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