[oclug] PVR-Personal Video Recorder using Linux

[Philippe Piche]

Well thanks for all the comments...

After reading on my own on available hardware MPEG encoders, It looks like the 
K6-2 500 could only work with a PVR-350 from Hauppage, although it may be hard 
to know until one tries it.

On the Series 2 Tivo, I am very interested in looking into this still.


Phil


Jim Little wrote:

> Quoting Philippe Piche:
> 
> 
>>Anyone doing this as a hobby project?
>>
>>I'm interested in using a ATI AIW Radeon 32MB with a K6-2 500MHz board.
> 
> 
> As has been noted that's too little CPU for most PVR related applications,
> although if you're willing to throw some money at it you could get a
> Hauppauge PVR-350 with MythTV and use the hardware compression/decoding to
> make it work.  This assumes you would be using a TV as your display.  You
> would also need a large harddrive.
> 
> Alternatively you might be able to use it as a backend only box and do
> the viewing from a different machine (do you have an X-box?).  There's
> no support for the AIW TV tuner using MythTV, though.
>  
> 
>>Also, what about "hacking" a Series 2 DVR from Tivo. I know that Series 1
>>has been done (see http://www.tivocanada.com ). This is the one I am more
>>interested in. Series 1 is linux based for sure. What about Series 2,
>>which is what I want to do?
> 
> 
> I know people are working on this but don't know anyone locally.
> 
> 
>>Phil
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