make a pvr

[Gianmarco Giovannelli]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:36:12 +0000
Dieter <freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com> wrote:

> > I'd like to made a personal video recorder and I am guessing which
> > hardware may I buy for the video recording.
> >
> > I am not able to find the Hauppage 250/350 easily.
> 
> I believe the Hauppage 250/350 are analog only?
> You are in Italy?  How much longer will Italy have analog
> broadcasts?  Do you have digital broadcasts yet?
> 

Yes, there are digital broadcasts and I think everything should be
digital in a couple of year. 

> The only DTV card I have found with any sort of Unix driver
> is the HD-3000.  There are drivers with source for Linux,
> there was talk awhile back of doing a BSD driver, I don't
> know if that has gotten anywhere?

Uhm... I'll check it asap... :-)

> The HD-3000 card is supposed to do pretty much any format,
> digital or analog (NTSC, PAL, SECAM, ATSC, ...).  To record
> a digital station you just dd the data from a device node,
> nearly no CPU usage.  

I think my priorities are :
1) play divx movies 
2) play dvd 
3) play mp3
4) show jpeg 
5) record from tv is the last because I have a dreambox 7000 and I use
it to record from sat (where the italian tv channels are duped).

So I ask for a kind suggestion of what I should buy/equip :-)




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Best Regards,
Gianmarco Giovannelli
http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco