1. On LINUX MCE I did download and install it. It installed as easily as they
said then I got lost/stuck in the configuration screens where you set up the
remotes and other stuff. It looks very promising but I went back to regular
ubuntu w/myth which I understand better.
"Richards Jr, Edward C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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.
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