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VLC & European Patents

Yro · Patents · 2005-04-07 09:26 · posted by CmdrTaco · from the going-to-get-worse-before-it-gets-better dept. · 421 comments

CaptScarlet22 writes " VideoLAN is seriously threatened by software patents due to the numerous patented techniques it implements and uses. Also threatened are the many libraries and projects which VLC is built upon, like FFmpeg, and the other fellow Free And Open Source software multimedia players, which include MPlayer, xine, Freevo, MythTV, gstreamer."
Building A Low-Budget TiVo Substitute?

Ask · Tv · 2003-12-10 08:31 · posted by timothy · from the this-is-my-anything-box dept. · 743 comments

thepuma writes "Since I'm cheap, and don't want to pay monthly fees to Tivo, I am researching building my own low-budget Personal Video Recorder and player. Free software options include Freevo and MythTV. Hardware options are the main cost factor. How would you go about building the perfect low-budget PVR?" We've looked at similar questions before, but the guts of such a system (both hardware and software) have been improving -- MythTV, for instance, now supports Hauppauge's PVR-350 card. How would you build a system like this now?