Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:28:29 +0100 From: Gianmarco Giovannelli <freebsd@gimbo.org> To: Arne Woerner <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make a pvr Message-ID: <7.0.0.16.2.20060117201708.04d39660@gimbo.org> In-Reply-To: <20060117090457.47301.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <7.0.0.16.2.20060117091949.03bd8b58@giovannelli.it> <20060117090457.47301.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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At 10.04 17/01/2006, Arne Woerner wrote: >--- Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it> wrote: >> I'd like to made a personal video recorder >> and I am guessing which hardware may I buy >> for the video recording. >> >If you use a fast box, you do not need a TV card that does >hardware MPEG encoding. I personally use two boxes (a very old >slow box (Pentium 166MHz P54C) for a hauppauge PVR 250 (that box >needs special care regarding the network traffic while the PVR >card is active; seems to be a problem with the old box... :-)) ) >and my newer box (Athlon XP 2400+) for a pinnacle PCTV rave and a >Hauppauge WinCast/TV, so that I can record 3 channels at the same >time (1 in good quality 720x576 pixel >and two in less quality 448x336), but then I cannot watch TV. :-)) Hi Arne, thanks for your kind, may I do some more questions ? If I got a pvr 250/350 I can use the mpeg encoding of the card to record the tv (or other video source I suppose). Is there similar hw supported by FreeBSD that I can buy if I am not able to find these two (250/350) ? If I use a fast box I can buy a simple tv card (i.e PCTV rave or Hauppauge WinCast/TV) and then use somekind of programs (which ? :-) to save the video in mpeg format. Any tips on hw well supported ones ? Which program should I use ? Freevo ? Thanks very much for your attention. Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://utenti.gufi.org/~gmarco/
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