On Tuesday 22 May 2007 14:31:20 Tom Buskey wrote: > On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Be aware that, with MythTV, you need a capture device (i.e., tuner > > card) per simultaneous recording, and there are limits to how much > > stuff you can stuff down a PCI bus. Four simultaneous recordings may > > be pushing it on anything but a high-end PC. But one dandy thing > > about MythTV is that you can have as many boxes as you want, sharing > > recordings via network. > > > > (Aside #1: You can do that with the Series 2 TiVo boxes, too, but > > they had to disable it in the high def Series 3 to get CableLabs > > approval. Ick.) > > And the Series 2 TiVo units top out with 100 Mb/s ethernet to USB > 2.0adapters. MythTV can use Gigabit ethernet. And MythTV can > automatically strip commercials.
And let me just add that MythWeb ROCKS in the current development trunk. Has a new flash player embedded, and if you have enough heft on the backend, it can transcode even hdtv recordings down to a suitably sized flv stream. I now have a solution for watching baseball games in the office without paying mlb.com... Next up: figure out how to proxy it and rebroadcast it throughout the office, since there are several of us that wanna watch... :) -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
