Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:22:46 -0500 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: stevec@redkingcole.co.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video streaming with freeBSD Message-ID: <11167f520808101722l7aba023pf705d8ff6233126c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <489F2582.3060304@mykitchentable.net> References: <489E0312.40908@serverhouse.co.uk> <489F2582.3060304@mykitchentable.net>
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> If the main purpose of your box is to be a PVR, I suggest going with a Linux > distribution and using MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org). While I am a fan of > FreeBSD as a web/mail/etc. server, it did not meet my needs when attempting > to build a PVR. I found the Gentoo Linux distribution most comfortable for > me because it uses a "portage" system similar to the "ports" system of > FreeBSD. Others I tried were package based and didn't always support my > hardware. I would like to try and put together the most functional FreeBSD based PVR system possible, even if it does have less functionality than it's Linux counterpart. does anyone have a recipe for a working FreeBSD based PVR? if not post Ideas for software / configurations / Hardware, and I will l make a web page out of it. Sam Fourman Jr.
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