I think you need to read the documents for good answers to those
questions but, yes, it works on channel 3.
As I understand it, the freevo server lives between the TV and the cable
box (or acts as the cable box if you don't have one). However you
currently have your cable installed, you just replace it with freevo.
I saw one in action the other day. It was built in this neat little
square-shaped case with a micro AMD 2600+ motherboard, slightly larger
than a game cube and with big shiny fans. The case itself was padded on
the inside to reduce noise, and the only peripherals attached were a
DVD-RW drive, a photoprinter and a small IR port sitting on top. It had
two video capture devices, one for the cable TV and one with RCA jacks
for the Playstation 2. It also had a good soundcard that went out to a
large stereo below. He had two 80 GB hard drives installed and was using
external hard drives and DVDs for permanent copies.
Now, the way this guy set his up was cool. The freevo server lives on a
box that also acts as a Web server, MySQL database server, sendmail
server, DHCP server and IPTables firewall. He uses it for all his
development work while recording shows, and can watch shows while
recording. He has his set up to display the weather and send an email
confirming shows have been recorded. It cost about $700 for the hardware
and everything else is open source.
M
-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 3:25 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: last nights Enterprise
> http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
>
> Have you thought about this yet?
>
> I am building one sometimes before the summer.
>
Interesting. Is there anyway to "output" back into my cable system? Like
take over channel 3 or something? The only place I would be able to use
this
is upstairs on a tiny tv, so it wouldn't get used much (however, I
_would_
use it make nice copies of shows like Enterprise).
-r
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