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On Tue, 31 May 2005 16:34:52 +0200, Tobias Roth wrote:

>On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 10:30:20AM -0400, Steve Friedrich wrote:
>> I ran across a VERY interesting app while surfing the net.
>> 
>> mythTV is a Personal Video Recorder and much more.
>> 
>> If I had the experience of creating a port, a TV card, and a job (in this industry that won't hire me with 28 yrs experience, but clamors for H-1B visas), this is the app I'd like to port.
>> 
>> I've resisted TiVo and other such solutions because they all seem to depend on buying a service.  I don't want to get stuck like the DiVix buyers with stuff that is no longer supported and I don't 
want a 
>> solution with a meter running.

>not easiily done because mythtv heavily depends on v4l (or v4l2).
>maybe ask on freebsd-multimedia about progress with this.

>cheers, t.

I don't even know what v4l is...

Anybody on multimedia can give insight on this or mythTV?