2005/11/6, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 05:31 -0600, Colin Ingram wrote: > > Does anyone know of any DVR software for Debian (or even just > > GNU/Linux). Im looking for something like this proprietary software. > > > > http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/ > > MythTV & Freevo.
Well, I spent half an hour trying to figure out how to get MythTV to work[1] until I discovered that MythTV is more like a whole new operating system than simply just "software for" recording TV shows. For one thing, MythTV creates its own user directory under /home. This is something I had never before seen in a piece of application software, although it's fairly common for daemons and the like to create their own user identities to own their processes. I had to log in as mythtv to get to the fancy setup screen. Unfortunately the computer I tried this on didn't have a TV tuner, as I didn't want to test MythTV on my Net-connected unit (and possible bork my connection). If all the OP wanted (I know it's probably not what s/he wants) was to record shows, you can't get much lighter than mplayer (mplayerhq.hu). You could also try mjpegtools and nvrec (SourceForge). I also see a recording option for VLC (videolan.org) but have so far been unable to get it to work. Mplayer can be programmed, using cron or at, to record shows at appropriate times. For simply watching TV, I use TVTime and sometimes even plain-vanilla mplayer. [1] Confession: I didn't read the documentation and simply relied on the video presentation I downloaded from http://revision3.com/systm/mythtv/ -- Albert Einstein: Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.
