Building a control freak's TIVO

Hey, y'all, I've been experimenting with a shiney new ATI TV
Wonder card, hoping to whip up a weirdish TIVO type thing (weird,
'cause I want to use the dual 1.2Mhz Athalon in my office for
encoding, and ship the result over ethernet to a laptop that sits
on top of my TV for decoding/control.)

I've got a couple of questions:
	1)	According to the box, my ATI TV Wonder is capable of
		encoding the mpeg2 itself.  Does anyone know if this works
		under Linux? (Requirement #1 ... it must be a linux
		solution)  If so, how to use it?
	2)	I have managed to record some video in AVI format, and to
		play it back with lavplay.  Now, the next step seems to
		be to set up the recorder in vt1 (I prefer framebuffer
		solutions to x ones, if possible) and play back at the
		same time in vt2.  On the overpowered (I hope) machine
		I'm using, it seems like I ought to be able to play back
		in two vts at the same time.

		Any suggestions on how to do this?

	3)	Any suggestions on implementing pause and such?

And some misc problems:
	streamer segfaults if you give it, for example, -fjpg instead
	of -fjpeg.  I looked at the selection code, and see at least
	one problem ( it will select the first combined writer it
	somes to, AFAICT )  If someone can tell me exactly what the
	requirements for the routine are, I can fix it.

	kwintv segfaults as soon as it starts playing something,
	anything.  Version info:
		Qt: 2.3.1
		KDE: 2.1.2
		kWinTV: 0.8.5
		Linux titan 2.4.14 #12 SMP Tue Nov 20 22:34:41 EST 2001
			-->	i686 unknown
	Any known problems?

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