Hi Recording TV normally needs a hardware encoder I believe, I think you are looking at 250pounds for an analogue encoder but a lot less for a simple tv card or a digital tv card that can give you an mpeg2 stream (diggital tv is of course already compressed so recording is easier) I'm not sure which hardware encoders work with linux either. These people are trying to record in software and look promising(ish) http://v4lgrab.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=features -- Time shifting would possibly be even harder without hardware mpeg2 encoders, unless you only want a short period of time shift and don't bother with much compresssion. --- I'm not sure if 5.1 works in linux on my sound blaster live. --- a remote control comes with most of haupage's offerings and works fine. --- The rest of your requests are perfectly feasable I think although I don't know of an integrated system that does all of it. --- Hardware they always have nice ideas at mini-itx.com but these are not fast machines and can only just do software decoding. Noise wise you want a fanless system using an aluminium case and heatpipes but with a zalman flower and undervolted case fans and a quiet harddisk my athlon is quiet enough for most (probably about the same as a video player and much quieter than my PS2). If you come up with any ideas / a workable solution I think we all want one. Martin On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Ralf Haller wrote: > Hi group, > > since I got no response to my last question according a PVR and DVD > player using a shuttle barebone, I am going to rephrase my question. > > I would like to build up a multimedia pc that can be used as a home > media center. It should replace most of the equipment in my living room > (VCR, DVD player, MP3 player, CD player). The OS should be Linux (of > course), preferably RedHat. > > Here are some requirements to the software: > > 1. Watching live analog TV from a video4linux device (digital TV via > cable or satellite is optional) > 2. Recording TV in the background manually or automatically > 3. Programming via WWW > 4. Time shift (watching recording while still recording) > 5. DVD player with 5.1 support (Dolby Digital, DTS etc.) with analog and > digital output > 6. CD player with connection to cddb > 7. MP3 player with library functions (LAN/WLAN support) > 8. Electronic program guide (like xmltv) for Germany > 9. Nice GUI (like mythtv) with remote control > > Requirements to the hardware: > > 1. Fast enough for software requirements > 2. Small and nice looking case (like Shuttle barebones) > 3. Quit (no loud fans or harddisks) > 4. Affordable (from 500 EUR to 1000 EUR) > 5. Available in Europe > 6. Remote control > 7. WLAN support > 8. 5.1 and digital audio output > 9. TV output > > That's a lot of requirements, I know. There are some software projects > that look nice and cover some of the requirements like mythtv for > example, however I still couldn't find any software that can do all of it. > > Concerning the hardware I like the barebones build by Shuttle. They look > nice and are well equipped. However what about Linux and video4linux on > an Shuttle barebones. Are there interesting alternatives to Shuttle > available? > > A nice example of a system I am talking of is TimeShifter > (http://www.showshifter.com), which is available for Windows only. > > I hope you people out there can help me with that? Thanks in advance. > > r@xxx > > > > -- > video4linux-list mailing list > Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list >
