4. Further Information

In this section, you'll find more information on additional utilities or ideas for making a VCR work under Linux.

4.1 MyVCR Wrapper Program proposal

We need a wrapper program that provides us with the ability to do the following things (from a main menu)

• Archive recorded shows to CDR/CDRW/DVDRAM
• Play Recorded shows (From hard disk or prompt for the media!)
• Set record times for recording shows - use tvguide.com as a source for showtimes. A program that accesses tvguide.com for showtimes is: tvguide.com perl program
• Be fully configurable to used preferred recorder/player.
• See Kvdr as a possible place to start.

4.2 Alternate Recorders

• Slow-CPU Capture Program

4.3 Recording Results

• Serge Wroclawski - 200mhz CPU is not fast enough.
• Brian Hayward - 900mhz Duron is fast enough.
• Stephen Moore - 500mhz Celeron CPU is not fast enough.

4.4 Other Suggested Ideas

• Describe recording from FM Tuner (radio) card and piping it to oggvorbiz or mp3encoder.
• Cable Descramblers: fscktv and CableTV.
• Figure out how to implement VCR+
• Encode audio as mp3 instead of PCM. This is reported to shrink 1hr of video from 420mb to about 140mb! remenyi (at) ace-net.com.au suggested Virtual Dub Unfortunately this is a windows program, if anyone can provide instructions on how to do this under linux, I will include it.
• Check out the Video Disk Recorder Project - build your own digital satellite receiver.
• Check out the LinuxTV project.
• A Menu Driven Video Recorder: Kvdr