mp1e can do the dumping to disk.. a quote from earlier this week wwhen I asked a similiar question: "mp1e 1.8.0-pre3 does a pretty good job when I use it with my bttv card and the v4l2 driver. It records IBP mpeg streams with audio in real time. 30fps 352x240 2.5mbit video with a stereo 160kbit soundtrack uses about 30% CPU time on my Celeron 366@550 w/ pc100 memory. Audio synchronization seems accurate. I've been able to make decent double-bitrate VCD's from the files it produces." from Brian Ristuccia XMLTV will grab the TV listings for ya (right now it only grabs UK listings, but I submitted a patch so it can grab canadian, there is an austrian one floating around too I think...any americans/other countries like to help out?), but still needs an good interface, I believe that it is going to be incorporated into gtv.. I have a ATI-TV wonder and it seems to work alright quality wise..its not perfect, but it works. You'll have to use V4L2 though, if you want to be able to capture and record at the same time. if you are interested in writing code for something like this, i'd love to help. Mike brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I'd like to roll my own Tivo/Replay. > > I'd be happy to use some hardware to accomplish this end. > > The Iomega BUZ seem kinda cool, but they don't seem to > sell it anymore: > > >Iomega has decided it will not ship any additional units of the Buz[tm] > >Multimedia Producer for the PC to its distribution channels. However, > >Iomega will continue to support the product - if you buy one you can > >continue to count on Iomega's outstanding customer support. Iomega > >will, of course, honor all warranties until they expire. ... > > The LML33 looks promising, but linuxmedialabs.com's website doesn't > respond. > > I also found a company that makes an USB based MPEG encoder, and > soon a firewire version, which uses the iComp chip (same as in > Tivo). Sadly no Linux driver. > > So what are people doing these days for a solution? > > I'm not worried about disk space, so MJPEG is a fine solution. > > Can I reliably (with adequate audio-sync) capture with say > a bt878 card, dumping the data to disk and encode later? > > Quality wise, 352x240 would be fine for my application. > > I'm even thinking that using my camcorder and dumping the DV data > via firewire would be ok. > > -- > Brian Litzinger <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >
