Alan Cox wrote:
Recording TV normally needs a hardware encoder I believe,
I think you are looking at 250pounds for an analogue encoder
Excessive.
You can record live tv happily with an analogue bt878 card and a decent
Duron using something like ffmpeg or mythtv. The better the CPU the more
compression you can get.
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.
Time shifting while recording is within the abilities of a decent duron
too.
For timeshifting I'll need either two soundcards or a soundcard with
more than one channel. One channel for recording and one channel for
playback. Is there a TV card with a soundcard built in?
Have you tried timeshifting with a Duron machine? I am thinking of
getting a PC with a Duron 1300 CPU.
Ralf
Hardware they always have nice ideas at mini-itx.com but these are not
fast machines and can only just do software decoding.
EPIA-M has hardware mpeg2 engines for playback but not yet full Linux
support for them. If that is fixed my guess is that the ideal combination
becomes an EPIA-M with a WinTV PVR 250 or a free to air digital tv card.
That would give you hardware mpeg2 all around.
If you come up with any ideas / a workable solution I think we all want
one.
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