OK, so XBMC/Kodi is the software that processes the video.
To get off the air programs you need a TV Tuner to convert the digital
TV signal.
Has anyone had any experience with a TV Tuner under Linux?
Hauppauge seems to be mentioned, but Linux support is not specifically
mentioned, nor have I seen a price for one.
Harold
On 12/28/2014 10:51 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
I'd install XBMC as that gives you (almost) every modern show that has
been produced. hmmmmm.... local programming too if your local to
pitsburg (or somewhere back east).
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 7:13 PM, koder <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I am a bit confused with the topic.
The book Linux Toys gives a cookbook recipe for building a Linux
based Digital Video Recorder. Is that what we are building here?
The book was written before the analog to digital conversion.
I know a couple of members in the group have been working on this
project.
The question I have been wondering about is what would be the best
digital card to use for off air digital gathering?
Where in the system would the pi fit?
A system I was using wourld only be running a few hours a day at
the most, to record a couple of shows and then display them on the
set.
Am I missing something?
Harold
On 12/28/2014 06:05 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
I would heavily recommend that you don't use a regular
computer to just stream video. Instead I would get a low
power ARM based single board computer. The reason being that
the full computer will quickly, within a couple of months, use
so much power that you could have have purchased the SBC and
powered it for years with the same amount of power/money. It
will literally cost hundreds to run a computer 24/7 just to
steam video.
Once you have that, there are a number of programs that will
fill your needs, the most popular is XBMC, which has custom
images for SBCs such as the Raspberry PI and I believe they
also work on the BananaPI which is much more powerful,
processor wise, and not that much more expensive.
Brian Cluff
On 12/28/2014 02:08 PM, Stephen M wrote:
Stephen, the only thing I plan on doing with this computer
is streaming
videos over a local LAN and display them on a smartTV. So
would I need
it if I wouldn't be using the computer itself?
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Stephen Partington
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
If you can getting a cheap graphics card can give you
an extended
life on the Pentium dual core, just make sure it
supports decoding
functions. something like the nvidia 720 or AMD R5 or
R7 low end gpu's.
Read up on drivers based on the multimedia application
or solution
you will be using.
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Stephen M
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
Hey All,
I know this as been asked a few times, and I
should keep all the
convos but there are so many. I am trying to find
a good
solution to start a media center. So I need to
know best
hardware and software. Of course I am using a Nix
system and
looking for anything inexpensive.
Although right now I have access to a Compact
SR5000, max 2Gb
RAM. It has a pentium dual core system. It has
Vista so I need
to get some ideas. The hard drive is around 500Gb
but my father
might give me a 1.5Gb.
So this will take a long time for me to get done
because of my
situation.
Thanks all
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