On Friday 23 November 2001 07:38 am, Stan Brown wrote: > What hardware (in addition to the basic computer) will I need? WinTV card? > Special Video car dor TV out? > > Obviosly I will need a failry fast machine, I'm Planing somehting like a > 1.2GHZ Athalon, and lots (40 -> 120G) of disk space. I would like to use > IDE disks, if they are fast enough. > > What software packages do I need?
There's a package over at sourceforge that may be of interest to you: http://dvr.sourceforge.net I haven't used it, but it's listed as "5-production/stable" and has some screenshots to look at. There's also the LinuxTV project, which is worth a look: http://linuxtv.org Regarding IDE disks, my TiVo uses 5400RPM IDE disks, so I would assume that's plenty fast. (I would look at the new Seagate Barracuda IV drives, simply because they run at 2 bels and are quieter than any other IDE drive out on the market place) Also, assuming you get a capture card that does onboard encoding, you may not need such a fast computer since it will simply be a file server at that point. Please let us know how this project goes -- I'd be interested in a project summary once you have it up and running. --kurt
