Talks (was: Re: [YLUG] A basic question)

[Pete Fenelon]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 06:54:08PM +0000, Alex Howells wrote:
> Um, cool hardware projects would be neat too.  Anyone got a working
> setup with >1 tuner to record TV in Linux?  What're you using in terms
> of cards and software?  

We had one about 18 months ago, but it was fairly specialised (i.e. they
were AirStar HD5000 ATSC tuner cards for American digital terrestrial)
and running on eval boards for embedded-PC hardware that never saw
the commercial light of day. Worked ok under a slightly hacked
MythTV. So it can be done, even with relatively modest CPUs (we
were using a 600MHz Celeron to serve three HD clients, but we just
ran mythbackend on the box itself - displaying anything beyond SD
was too much for the combination of weedy CPU and glacial onboard
graphics ;))

Anyway, it can be done and should go very nicely on any modern PC.
Whole-home distributed PVR is definitely possible on commodity kit, just
a pity nobody's written a really good free DLNA stack yet to really glue
everything together in a true open-standards way! 

pete
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