I built a homebrew DVR under Linux. I used a Brooktree-based tuner/grabber (bt878 chipset) because AFAIK that is the only chipset with a good Linux driver (bttv.o, by Gerd Knorr). This grabs mpeg nicely on an old PentiumII-300MHz CPU. Why the preference for Divx?
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I built a homebrew DVR under Linux. I used a Brooktree-based tuner/grabber (bt878 chipset) because AFAIK that is the only chipset with a good Linux driver (bttv.o, by Gerd Knorr). This grabs mpeg nicely on an old PentiumII-300MHz CPU. Why the preference for Divx?
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mgatny@umich.edu