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Linux Box As Digital VCR

Posted by michael on from the celestial-gnukebox dept.

Janus Daniels writes: "Kuro5hin has a story about how to use Linux tools to capture any video to a hard drive, edit it, and then copy it to the long term media of your choice."

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  1. Oh Baby!! by brad3378 · · Score: 3


    Can you say FSCKTV??
    This thing would ROCK with a cable TV descrabler, (for educational purposes of course).

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  2. Great by batobin · · Score: 5

    Just what I need. Instructions on how to turn my $2000 Linux box into a $100 VCR.

  3. Hardware MPEG2 encoding? by Stiletto · · Score: 4

    Anyone play around with hardware MPEG2 encoding? I like the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR (different than the regular WinTV), but it looks like this thing is Windows only :( I'd like to be able to capture and record stuff directly to MPEG2. Anyone know about any Linux drivers for this one? The regular WinTV works with video4linux, but this one apparently does not.

    I understand the guys at LinuxTV have drivers for a particular board with the Visiontech KFir chip but I've never seen this board anywhere...

  4. more info at linux gazette by po_boy · · Score: 4
    Theres some more info that may help out anyone interested in this kind of stuff at linuxgazette:

    http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue62/silva.html

    I can't wait for my tuner card to get here.

    All your dangifiknow are belong to us.

  5. Re:Done it. by Outlyer · · Score: 4

    Hmm... sounds familiar... almost as if he cut and paste it from the one _I_ wrote. I'm outlyer on kuro5hin.org too...

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  6. Linux Video Disc Recorder by kju · · Score: 3

    At least here in germany digital TV (using the afaik worldwide standard DVB - digital video broadcast) is gaining popularity.

    You can already buy PCI-Cards for the reception of digital TV (arround $200-250). A Linux Video Disc Recorder for the storage of the digital MPEG2 stream from the satellite is available too.

    It has all the features a decent satellite receiver needs and nice recording features. You want to record that weekly show? No problem. Or that other daily show? Cut out the commercials? Using a second card: Start recording when the movie starts, and make a break whenever you like, playing back the still recording stream when you return from your kitchen or whereever you have gone to.

    For the software (under the GPL) see http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/