James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Hey all, > > I just purchased a FusionHDTV card, which I'll be installing this > evening. I envisage three use cases for it: > > 1. Watching TV where I'm sitting in front of the computer. > 2. Recording streams off the thing to watch when I have time. > 3. Streaming data across the network so I can watch it on (say) my > laptop. > > Is anyone doing any of this stuff, and if so what software are you using > to do it? Does it work well? Caveats? > > I'm currently thinking that I'll use mplayer for (1), vlc for (2) and > maybe mencoder for (3), but I'm not really sure yet.
MythTV. What you want is *exactly* what this does. Your backend (recording) processes are independent of your frontend (viewing) processes and can run on different machines. It supports live TV, recording programmes, automaticlaly recording programs that match criteria you ask for, and being able to watch either live or recorded TV on different boxes from the one with the tuner card. It can even be used with standalone set top boxes (eg for PPV services). http://www.mythtv.org/ BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
