Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:36:57 -0000 From: "Jasvinder S. Bahra" <bbdl21548@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Recomendations for Video Capture Cards Message-ID: <001701c5146f$a431f530$0600010a@azimuth>
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Hi all, I've recently had a PC become available, and I would like to set it up as a kind of video recorder. I would like to purchase a card of some sort that would allow me to connect the PC to my TV, and record television programmes on the hard-drive. The reverse also - playing back the recording, and viewing it on the TV. Now, i've done a little research, and I understand that FreeBSD "provides support for PCI-based TV cards using a Brooktree Bt848/849/878/879 or a Conexant CN-878/Fusion 878a Video Capture Chip with the bktr(4) driver". Does anyone have any recomendations on a video capture card that would be suitable? Has anyone done anything like this before? I presume so as the driver already exists. How successful (or otherwise), did the project turn out? I realise there is lots of software in the ports collection that can provide audio/video capture capabilities, but does anyone know of any that can be scheduled to automatically start and stop capturing at predefined times? I suppose I could use the crontab if the software supports command line configuration... Regards, Jazz
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