Topic: TV grabber for SME?

[Knuddi]

I am looking for a way to use a SME server to do video grabbing from a TV tuner card and save it in DivX or similar format. The purpose for this is to place a server in belgium where my parents in law lives so that my wife can watch local belgium show here in Denmark. The idea would be the transfer the compressed "recording" to my SME server in Denmark over nigth.

Any god suggestions? I would have to be commandline bases somehow and I could use Cron to schedule the recordings.

Thanks,
Jesper Knudsen

[Anonymous]

Perhaps something like http://nvrec.sourceforge.net/

I use Mythtv. The recordings for a half hr show go somewhere around a Gig - what is your planned method of transfer for the recorded stuff. Even going to Divx - it will still be a pretty large file.

Regards Duncan

[Knuddi]

Mythtv looks like the right thing. I need to be able to remotely start and stop recordings and it seems to have a web-interface. Are you running in on a SME box or std. Redhat with GUI or something else?

I have found the RH RPMs but they require a ton of other modules that are unknown to me.

Do you have a list of RPMs you installed to get it going and maybe a supershort howto?

I have 2Mb here in DK and 512K in Belgium. I know that it will take long time but I only expect to transfer max 1hour a day.

[duncan]

I am running it on Slackware 9.0. Gave it a quick go on SME and backed out - needs X for the initial setup phase, which is a pain as it quite happily runs without X thereafter. Some people have suggested installing without X and running a GUI session from another nix box.

How about this one

http://www.stack.nl/~brama/vcr/index.html?page=news
or
http://webvcrplus.sourceforge.net/index.html

Regards Duncan