[vdr] Re: A PAL Broadcast TV Hard Drive Recorder

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ulrich Petri" <ulope@gmx.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 1:07 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: A PAL Broadcast TV Hard Drive Recorder


> Steven Armstrong wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am interested in building a  PAL Broadcast TV Hard Drive Recorder. I
> > understand that this project together with a hardware MPEG2
> > encoder card
> > will do what I want.  As MPEG2 encoder cards aren't cheap my
> > question is
> > what speed of CPU could handle software encoding and still
> > carry out the
> > functions of the VDR? I would prefer not to go to a multi CPU
> > motherboard.
> >
>
> Hi you don't need an encoder but a decoder card.
> You will at least have to use a budget DVB card (e.g. WinTV-Nova) and a
> "Realmagic Holywood plus" aka. "Creative DXR3" MPEG2 decoder crad. Both
> you can get for about 40 Euro at ebay.
>

I think he wants to feed analogueTV to VDR.

The problem will be, that VDR only handles MPEG-TS and I don't know of any
software-encoder which can produce MPEG-TS from V4L ...

Rene



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