On 24 Jan 2002, Roger wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 09:49, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > I already posted this to livid-user but that list doesn't seam very active > > so I decided to repost it here. > > > > I would like to start a project and/or work with existing project such > > home-brewed TiVO system for two main reasons 1) for the fun of it and 2) > > to make a statement to the RIAA and the MPAA that they are not going to be > > able to control the flow of information period. This project will be > > different then some of the other projects I have seen in several key ways: > > > > yea yea. one word (err, maybe two) Mjpeg-tools. > > grab the latest and greatest from here: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpeg/ > > and sign up on the mailing list to keep up-to-date on it's developement. > > ummm.. i see ron already replied several times. > > i think mjpeg does all this, even without a monitor and video card. > think you could use just a simple capture card (with an additional > soundcard if needed). almost all the mjpegtools are cli and appears to > be well coded. Yes, but mjpeg does not compress that well although it may be the only choice if I want to remain patent safe. Please don't tell me that mjpeg encoding violates some patent. I thing mjpeg should defiantly be an option but I think using mpeg-1 should also be OK. Especially since hardly anyone knows even what patents are used. ffmpeg is a very good real time mpeg encoding which only used about 50% of my cpu on a PIII 500. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org
