[brlug-general] Tivo like kludge from Lenny.

[c.a. weisheit]

1. On LINUX MCE I did download and install it. It installed as easily as they said then I got lost/stuck in the configuration screens where you set up the remotes and other stuff. It looks very promising but I went back to regular ubuntu w/myth which I understand better.


"Richards Jr, Edward C." <ECRichards at fbd.com> wrote:       Also,  there is LinuxMCE (http://www.linuxmce.org/) that looks really  nice. It is based on Kubuntu 7.1 and the authors have apparently utilized some  of the features of Compiz-Fusion to really make the user interface very easy to  use as well as VERY appealing visually. There is a demo video of it here:  
  
 http://tinyurl.com/2pu8zj
  
 Carl,  
  
 Sometime back you brought a USB device to one of the  workshops that is used to connect an analog video signal to a Linux box. What is  the make and model of that device? I have been asked by others about it and want  to order one for myself, as well. 
  
 Thanks, 
  
 Ed
  
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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Tivo like kludge from    Lenny.


have you tried mythtv? it has a manual scheduler if    you don't want to use the built in program scheduler.

also, what is the    better card you want to use? maybe I can help?

also,also, I was unable    to goto the link provided.


willhill    <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote:   I      now have a crude PVR strung together with xawtv, vlc and kcron. The script      
is:

#!/bin/bash      -m
name=$1
channel=$2
durration=$3
date=$(date      +"%Y_%m_%d")
cd /home/willhill/movies
cat general_playlist.m3u | sed      s/program_name/$name-$date/g > 
this_playlist.m3u
rm      /home/willhill/.xawtv
ln -s /home/willhill/.xawtv_config/xawtv-$channel      /home/willhill/.xawtv
xawtv &
vlc this_playlist.m3u &
sleep      $durration\m
killall vlc
killall xawtv
rm      /home/willhill/.xawtv
ln -s /home/willhill/.xawtv_config/xawtv-all      /home/willhill/.xawtv

I call it at showtime, using cron. I had to use      xawtv because vlc does not 
work my ATI wonder card's tuner and I use vlc      because xawtv's capture does 
not work for me and I don't know the ffmpeg      or other straight forward way to 
capture streams. So xawtv sets the      tuner and vlc captures the movie. 

I'd rather use a better card that      came with a computer I bought recently but 
could not figure it      out.

http://68.225.99.100:1024/photo_album/chron/2008/2008_02_08_mini_pc/

The      "general_playlist.m3u" looks like      this:

#EXTM3U
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-vdev=/dev/video0
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-adev=/dev/dsp1
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-norm=1
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-frequency=-1
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-caching=300
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-chroma=
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-fps=-1.000000
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-samplerate=44100
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-channel=0
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-tuner=-1
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-audio=-1
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-stereo
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-width=640
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-height=480
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-brightness=-1
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-colour=-1
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-hue=-1
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-contrast=-1
#EXTVLCOPT:no-v4l-mjpeg
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-decimation=1
#EXTVLCOPT:v4l-quality=100
#EXTVLCOPT:sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp1v,vb=1024,scale=1,acodec=mpga,ab=192,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst=/home/willhill/movies/program_name.mpeg}}
v4l://

I      made vlc work once and saved the playlist. 640x480 resolution is just      
watchable quality from the ATI Wonder (bt878). 

The xawtv config      files are just the same as the "all" file but only has the 
channel I      want to record in it. 

String it all together and you get a kludge.      I'm sure there are better ways 
of doing this but I think it's going to      work for me.      





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