ANNOUNCEMENT - tvpvrd 1.4.7 ========================= This is to announce the new release of the GPL 3.0 published multi-threaded recording/transcoding GNU-Linux daemon 'tvpvrd' - TV Personal Video recorder for ivtv.
Download from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tvpvrd/ User visible updates since last public announcement: - Addition of basic WEB-interface with automatic recognition of and formatting for mobile phones. This makes it easy to use WEB access from a mobile device - Addition of optional mail notification on events (e.g. transcoding finished) - Support for NTSC frame size - Fixed some hardcoded file references where some settings were not properly read from the INI file - Additional command to view log file (The daemon is available as a traditional tar-package source and as prebuilt RPM for OpenSuSE 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and factory) NOTE: This is only for GNU-Linux NOT for any versions of Windows. CREDITS: ======== To all developers of ivtv-driver that made this possible. RATIONALE ========== In mailing lists and on the ivtv-wiki there are questions on how to do scheduled recording using a capture card. Usually the reply on the wiki and on the mailing lists is to use either a) some cron/at shell script or b) install a full fledged media center (e.g. MythTV). This daemon solves this recording/scheduling problem by offering a clean method to schedule both recording and optional transcodings (using ffmpeg) by the means of a resident Unix/Linux daemon for those who do no want/need a full fledged media center but still wants more easy of use and flexibility than is possible with manually added cron jobs. FEATURES ========= * Client server architecture with automatic client arbitration * Multi threaded, multi process architecture * Basic master /slave option for how to run the server which makes it possible to run as a slave to do transcoding on a server that doesnät have a capture card. * Built in micro WEB-server to allow easy WEB access to manage recordings * ... or command line access via TCP/IP for more advanced commands * Full UTF-8 support for names of recordings * Very small footprint (unloaded daemon binary is only 179K) * Simultaneous recording using multiple capture cards * Multi transcoding of the same video with user defined profiles * Self contained XML based recording database (no need to install or setup a separate database) * Intelligent load balancing for transcoding * Large File Support (LFS) to enable recorded files with sizes >2GB * Easy to use support for recurring recordings, daily, weekly, workdays, etc * Intelligent time/date specification * Extensive Unix manpage documentation (as well as PDF version) * Extensive customization possible via INI-file * ... and much more !! _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
