Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:33:49 -0500 From: Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: homemade PVR questions Message-ID: <200603251533.54375.nb_root@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <063104E3-F7FA-4260-92F9-9A75D3B9C874@netmusician.org> References: <063104E3-F7FA-4260-92F9-9A75D3B9C874@netmusician.org>
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--nextPart2925371.saGgyAgycN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 25 March 2006 15:07, Joe Auty wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm just getting ready to setup a PVR for myself on my FreeBSD > machine, but I thought I would run by my plans with you guys first > just to ensure that this will work. > > I have a satellite signal (Bell ExpressVu), it comes with a set-top > box that inputs and outputs a coax signal. I'm looking at the > Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 and using the driver for this provided in the > ports tree with MythTV. > > Really, all I need this for is recording TV shows just like we used > to use a VCR for. If I can schedule, record, save to a directory, > I'll pick up this Hauppauge card. > > Are there minimal requirements for the video and sound cards, or is > all of this handled by the Hauppauge card? Any experiences doing > something similar to what I'm doing? Any general advice? > > > Thanks! > Hi, what you wish to attempt is possible, here's my experience: I have a WinTV card and I can record with transcode (also possible with=20 mencoder) but the problem is that whenever bktr (the wintv driver) is opene= d=20 for read, the TV audio that is fed from my WinTV to my sound card thru=20 the "line in" port is heard. That means that I can record a show (audio/video) correctly, but at the cos= t=20 of hearing the audio while it is recording. Obviously annoying unless I tur= n=20 off my speakers, and I haven't found a way around (playing with mixer to tu= rn=20 down the volume obviously turns down the recorded volume too). Playing with the WinTV in FreeBSD is tricky, but usually one can fiddle aro= und=20 to make it work. Post your experiences in the FreeBSD-Multimedia list if yo= u=20 ever attempt your project. Nicolas. =2D-=20 =46reeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #13: Sat Mar 25 09:45:35 EST 2006 =20 root@clk01a:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A=20 PGP? : http://www.clkroot.net/security/nb_root.asc --nextPart2925371.saGgyAgycN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEJaky4wTBlvcsbJURAii6AKC5VQTYKqRVUdnYyndrOIWZ/spXdQCfRxLm vqxmxqfGlpGeBXSP1N2CW9Q= =WCFp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2925371.saGgyAgycN--
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