Also, there is LinuxMCE ( http://www.linuxmce.org/) that looks really nice. It is based on Kubuntu 7.1 and the authors have apparently utilized some of the features of Compiz-Fusion to really make the user interface very easy to use as well as VERY appealing visually. There is a demo video of it here: http://tinyurl.com/2pu8zj Carl, Sometime back you brought a USB device to one of the workshops that is used to connect an analog video signal to a Linux box. What is the make and model of that device? I have been asked by others about it and want to order one for myself, as well. Thanks, Ed
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of c.a. weisheit Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Tivo like kludge from Lenny. have you tried mythtv? it has a manual scheduler if you don't want to use the built in program scheduler. also, what is the better card you want to use? maybe I can help? also,also, I was unable to goto the link provided. willhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I now have a crude PVR strung together with xawtv, vlc and kcron. The script is: #!/bin/bash -m name=$1 channel=$2 durration=$3 date=$(date +"%Y_%m_%d") cd /home/willhill/movies cat general_playlist.m3u | sed s/program_name/$name-$date/g > this_playlist.m3u rm /home/willhill/.xawtv ln -s /home/willhill/.xawtv_config/xawtv-$channel /home/willhill/.xawtv xawtv & vlc this_playlist.m3u & sleep $durration\m killall vlc killall xawtv rm /home/willhill/.xawtv ln -s /home/willhill/.xawtv_config/xawtv-all /home/willhill/.xawtv I call it at showtime, using cron. I had to use xawtv because vlc does not work my ATI wonder card's tuner and I use vlc because xawtv's capture does not work for me and I don't know the ffmpeg or other straight forward way to capture streams. So xawtv sets the tuner and vlc captures the movie. I'd rather use a better card that came with a computer I bought recently but could not figure it out. http://68.225.99.100:1024/photo_album/chron/2008/2008_02_08_mini_pc/ The "general_playlist.m3u" looks like this: #EXTM3U #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-vdev=/dev/video0 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-adev=/dev/dsp1 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-norm=1 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-frequency=-1 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-caching=300 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-chroma= #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-fps=-1.000000 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-samplerate=44100 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-channel=0 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-tuner=-1 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-audio=-1 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-stereo #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-width=640 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-height=480 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-brightness=-1 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-colour=-1 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-hue=-1 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-contrast=-1 #EXTVLCOPT:no-v4l-mjpeg #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-decimation=1 #EXTVLCOPT:v4l-quality=100 #EXTVLCOPT:sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp1v,vb=1024,scale=1,acodec=mpga,ab=192,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst=/home/willhill/movies/program_name.mpeg}} v4l:// I made vlc work once and saved the playlist. 640x480 resolution is just watchable quality from the ATI Wonder (bt878). The xawtv config files are just the same as the "all" file but only has the channel I want to record in it. String it all together and you get a kludge. I'm sure there are better ways of doing this but I think it's going to work for me. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _____ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51438/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs> your homepage.
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