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Build Your Own Linux PVR

Posted by timothy on from the 15-fps-could-be-improved dept.

linuxwrangler writes "A few weeks ago Russell Pavlicek, Infoworld's 'Open Source' columnist mentioned a personal linux video time-shifter (PVR) he built. In response to reader requests he has now posted a page describing the project." Escaping the monthly fees of TiVo is a good motivation -- and the total cost here isn't bad either.

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  1. Ahh the irony... by sheldon · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    To find this load of kludged together hardware and software on a website with the designation... "Linux Professional Solutions"

    *chuckle*

  2. Yeah by Pay+The+Fuck+Up! · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just pay for the damn Tivo already.

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    Pay the fuck up!
  3. Re:No open schedule? by mosch · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    TV Guide doesn't sell guide data so much as it sells guide services.

    Honestly, I considered setting up a company to license the TMS big build for free pvrs and such, until I realized an important point. People who call a celeron 400 with some perl scripts and a tv-out a tivo aren't going to be willing to pay $3/mo for legal guide data, when they could just steal it instead.

    If I thought there was a chance in hell that the result of my hard work would be something other than a bunch of jackasses distributing the data on kazaa while some other jackasses bitched and moaned about how expensive $3/mo is and how I must be getting rich off of that somehow.

    Does anybody think I'm wrong about that?