[SATLUG] Is myth TV what I need

[John C]

Robert J Hewitt wrote:
> No it does have a video input Composite and I remember using it a while
> back when I was using it on a win 2000 pro machine, on that I since
> upgraded to a Nvidia card.I might be wrong about the model but I know it
> is a Radion but I will have to open the box and check it to see.  As for
> my DVR I think I might have mis-represented what it was.  Explorer
> 8300HD Cable DVR/Cable Converter. I don't want to cut it open and get
> the HD out as it technical is not my property.  Now I do have  video cap
> card that came with the pinicle Studio software I bought,  but I have it
> insatalled in my DElL win XP so that I can use the Pinicle Software I
> Bought to pull videos off my Camcorder through the FireWire Port.  It
> has both S-Video and Composite Input and Outputs.  I have thought about
> moving it to my Linux Box but I have not quite made my mind up about it.
> As soon as I can get the exact model of video card I have I will post it
> here.
>
> RObert  
> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 22:16 -0500, John Pappas wrote:
>   
>> On 8/6/07, Robert J Hewitt <kc5jmr at grandecom.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> I am looking of a good program that will let me record shows recorded to
>>> my DVR to my PC I am using Fedora 7 and I just noted that my ATI video
>>> card is a ATI Radion VE 7000 with the video in and video out as well as
>>> S-video and VGA. are there any good capture programs that will work with
>>> Fedora 7 and my ATI Card.
>>>       
>> I am nearly 100% positive that your card does not have a capture
>> capability.  Depending on your needs and desires, you will need some
>> type of video encoder/capture device.  Since you want to use Linux,
>> you will have to get one that has Linux drivers.
>>
>> I personally use SageTV, since it has the all the features that I want
>> and commercial support.  I have not played with MythTV, but many on
>> this list do.  I only have a Hauppauge PVR-500 MCE Dual SDTV Tuner.  I
>> have not gone to HDTV, but I am very excited for official Linux
>> support for the HVR-1600(PCI)/HVR-1800(PCIe), as they have both an HD
>> and SDTV tuners, so 2 of them provide simultaneous recording of 2 HD
>> and 2 SD programs, so one will never miss "House" again.
>>
>>     
>>> I would like to copy off all the shows I
>>> record to my DVR to PC as I am running out of room on my DVR.
>>>       
>> I assume your DVR is a proprietary unit that does not allow you to
>> freely use your shows.  What I like about the Myth/SageTV setups is
>> that the recorded shows are unencoded/unencrypted/unDRMed MPEG2, so I
>> can do what I want with them (Copy them to iPOD, DVD, Laptop, Treo,
>> etc), and they are not locked if I change DVR systems or whatever.
>>
>> HTH,
>> John
>>     
>
>   
hi,

i can't remember with 100% certainty, but isn't there a version of
belarc for linux? we use that are work for our windows pcs but not for
our debian boxes. our developers would have fits if we started trying to
actually install stuff on those locked down beasts.