FreeVO + MythTV and others look very prominsing.
I encountered a project (too "hardware'ish" for me) which deals
with remote control and lcd panel for home brew machines.
I forgot the name of the project - it more user friendly than lcdmod
but that's all I remember. Anyway, I saw a very nice box with 200gb hd
+ touch panel + remote control + library software which can read and
store all your dvd's/cd plus the usual tv programming.
I cost the guy ~3000$ in the US but he built everything there is to it.
He modeled it after AMX devices, including networking
If you are really into that, look at AMX site.
Anyway, I guess there is no such service for auto-programming in israel.
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> On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 08:12:48PM +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote:
>> On Sunday 04 July 2004 18:58, Moshe Leibovitch wrote:
>> > Are you aware of any programming signals transferred by them?
>> > Otherwise IMHO , it will serve as "simple" video capture.
>> > I tried to find out whether a box such as tvio will work here. Do you
>> > know if it will work even without programming signals? (ignore
>> ntsc-pal
>> > issue) ____________________________________________
>> > Moish
>> >
>> So many questions :) and I really do not know the answers :)
>>
>> What I am trying to solve are two issues:
>> 1) Capture cards
>> 2) Programming some interface between by Linux machine and the Yes/HOT
>> Remote/Box so that it can change channels by itself.
>
> The right thing to do, is to get a DVB-C (for cables) or DVB-S (for
> satellite) capture card which is:
> 1. Supported by linuxtv project.
> 2. Has a Common Interface (= CI) slot, to use a decoder card.
> Otherwise, you could only receive the unencrypted public broadcasts
> (Israeli channel 1, channel 2 etc.). Try removing the "smart card" from
> your decoder while using it to see what channels you'd miss.
>
> Most "budget" cards -- those which come without the (completely
> unnecessary) MPEG-2 decoder -- don't come with a CI slot either.
> More over, even cards which come with a CI slot are not neccessarily
> supported by linuxtv (and even if supported, the CI functionality is
> not supported).
>
> With a DVB receiver, you can directly record the MPEG-2 video which the
> TV company supplies you. I think that you can even record all channels
> simultaneously, as they are broadcast to everybody.
>
> Another option is to get the completely-hackable Linux-based
> set-top box called DreamBox:
> http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/Bereiche/Produkte/index.php
> You can google to find unnumerable hacks for it. The company itself
> instructs you nowadays on how you can add an HDD into the box. All
> benefits of a DVB card apply to it as well. And it comes with 2 CI
> slots.
>
> -
>
> BTW,
> 1. Anyone knows whether separate 'CI slot' cards exist, and whether
> any one them can be used with Linux?
> 2. Can some kind of illegal software-based deciphering solution be used
> with Linux?
>
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