brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > 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: The MAC version is the PC version, with MAC software (both have PCI bus).... People are working on versions with the Matrox Video card that has the Zoran MJPEG chip on it also... > > >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. email Vasili(?) (from their web site - unless they are at a show they usually respond in under a couple of hours... ). (We are getting a card from them for doing some work). > > 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. The MJPEG seems them most cost affective at the moment - I am looking at hacking a bt848 card and just using the Tuner output and feeding that into a BUZ card (I have a couple of them ... ).... (Other people have done something similar ). wes > > -- > Brian Litzinger <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
