Re: [Freevo-users] what is the currently best tv tuner card for freevo?
Bastian Farkas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I am quite satiesfied with my freevo and xbox/debian setup so far - but I would like to move now to another system and need some advise. 1. what is the best TV Tuner card for freevo? Especially: are digital tuners supported as well (input: digital cable in germany) hauppauge pvr cards or similar work quite well. i am using a pvr-250 for some time now and am really happy with it. concerning dvb support i cannot give much advice, but iirc dischi/rshortt have dvb cards in their freevo boxes. Yeah the PVR cards are the best I've tried yet on the analogue side. DVB is supported and more support is being built directly into freevo 2 for it. However I believe most people are using DVB-Sat, you might have a problem with your digital cable if it if encrypted and requires a viewing card. Have a search through the list archives, there might be some more useful info there. 2. what is the best way of setting everything up? TV Tuner Card in a remote server, that runs the whole time (for recording tasks). Or getting rid of the xbox setup and use a box-pc with the tuner card in it? But then I need to leave it running, when I want to record things, right? You'll definately need it running if you want to record :) there is a plugin though that will start up your box and shut it down when needed. You could buy a nice silverstone case, silent psu and quite fans (expensive though). get rid of the xbox a build a small and silent mini-itx system. if you have a tv-card with hardware mp2-encoder (which is highly recommended), an old p3 system will suffice. p3 cpus are quite powerfull and can be kept cool without much noise. 3. Is it useful to watch TV only via freevo when considering the questions above? When I use a remote record server, then I need an additional TV Tuner Card in the PC, that is used as the freevo frontend, right? Or can I transport the TV Images via network from the System with the remote TV Tuner Card to the freevo frontend System? Is this useful and/or practiable?? freevo does not have streaming support at this time. it could become available if the timeshifting stuff is done. personally i still use my tvset for watching live tv, because zapping in freevo is too slow. :) It is being built directly\into Freevo 2 though I'm happy for every input!! cheers, Hans --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] what is the currently best tv tuner card for freevo?
Thanks for the input... some question. 2. what is the best way of setting everything up? TV Tuner Card in a remote server, that runs the whole time (for recording tasks). Or getting rid of the xbox setup and use a box-pc with the tuner card in it? But then I need to leave it running, when I want to record things, right? You'll definately need it running if you want to record :) there is a plugin though that will start up your box and shut it down when needed. You could buy a nice silverstone case, silent psu and quite fans (expensive though). Hum... , understand. Well, I like the xbox because its small, has a good video tuner and doesn't waste power... with a normal PC and an normal psu, you might end up seeing your power bill rising... the xbox is fine with 140W max. I don't know about a normal pc... but when looking at the psu's in the various stores... 250W, 350W, 400W... ugh. What about mini-itx? Is that stuff consuming less power? And what board should I use there? get rid of the xbox a build a small and silent mini-itx system. if you have a tv-card with hardware mp2-encoder (which is highly recommended), an old p3 system will suffice. p3 cpus are quite powerfull and can be kept cool without much noise. No, I don't have a tuner card yet. I had did a little search about mini-itx... What about a VIA EPIA-M Mainboard with a good case... like morex cubid or SilverStone Lascala? The need less power. Does the pvr 250 card fit into these boxes? freevo does not have streaming support at this time. it could become available if the timeshifting stuff is done. personally i still use my tvset for watching live tv, because zapping in freevo is too slow. :) It is being built directly\into Freevo 2 though Ah.. this clears things up. Whats the problem, why is it slow? I believe its not freevo, because its phyton - or am I wrong? cheers, Hans --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] what is the currently best tv tuner card for
No, I don't have a tuner card yet. I had did a little search about mini-itx... What about a VIA EPIA-M Mainboard with a good case... like morex cubid or SilverStone Lascala? The need less power. Does the pvr 250 card fit into these boxes? I build something similar with a epia M 1000. My pvr did fit into it. You will probably need to recompille a bit. See links into the following link. http://gedeco.pointclark.net/index.php?option=contenttask=viewid=14Itemid=2 can't advise you about the dimensions of the card. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean. http://gedeco.no-ip.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] recordserver + mencoder with dvb doesn't stop
Hi friends, I'm having a strange behaviour with the recordserver with dvb. Usually I use this VCR_CMD to record: VCR_CMD = CONF.mplayer + ' -dumpstream -dumpfile %(filename)s dvb://%(channel)s' TV_RECORDFILE_SUFFIX = '.ts' and it works correctly. But now I'm trying to use mencoder for saving my dvb stream directly with lavc with this: VCR_CMD = CONF.mencoder + ' dvb://%(channel)s -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1200:keyint=30 -oac lavc -vf pp=fd,scale=720:576 -ffourcc divx -o %(filename)s' TV_RECORDFILE_SUFFIX = '.avi' It successfully record the stream but doesn't stop the scheduled record filling the disk. What's the problem? Any solutions? Thank you --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
