[ale] HOWTO->hookup a videocam to.....

[charrig at earthlink.net (Calvin Harrigan)]

Now there is something I would like to get going.  I've being throwing around 
ideas about a "poor guy tivo" for sometime.  I was hoping that the wintv PVR 
from Hauppauge would have been supported by linux, but unfortunately it's 
not.  It has a built in mpeg2 encoder/decoder.  Most of hauppauges other pci 
cards work though.  From what I understand it works very well under the other 
OS.  Does anyone have any links, ideas, about software/hardware that could 
help in implementing a tivo type device in linux?  I had a dozen or so links 
on an other machine that's not accessible anymore.

Thanks,
Calvin



On Wednesday 19 September 2001 07:36 pm, you wrote:
> > Unless your Palmcorder has a computer interface (check your manual),
> > then you will need a video capture card.
> >
> > You should also check out the video4linux(2) web pages.
>
> If you're going into video capture, think about the Iomega BUZ. It's fairly
> well supported under Linux, does full hardware
> capture/compression/playback, comes with a onboard SCSI adapter (also Linux
> supported: advansys), and can be picked up on Ebay for a song (and about
> $50 or so).
>
> I have one and I use it as my TV interface. I'm still working on the
> capture part because there's an incompatibility with the ALSA drivers. But
> it's on my list of things to do so that I can do my poor guy's TIVO.
>
> BAJ
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