On 2013-04-30 04:53, [email protected] wrote: > to my best knowledge there is no such thing as a free solution for > providing such functionality as a Tivo. > At least most modern cards (DVB-T / DVB-S / DVB-S2 / DVB-C) rely on > non-free firmware files. May be there is a small minority of cards which > runs without non-free blobs but I do not know any. This applies both to > PCI, PCIe and USB devices.
The HDHomerun networked tuners that I mentioned don't require any non-free software on your PC - in fact there are free open source DVB drivers for them (which specifically take care of capturing the networked stream as opposed to on-board/USB from a local device). An added advantage is separating the storage, front-end and back end. I initially run this setup on the family PC but it required more maintenance and restarting as its software changed often, as opposed to a dedicated virtual machine that almost never changes configuration (except for updates). F. -- Fabián Rodríguez http://trisquel.magicfab.ca
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