[plug] low heat & low noise linux box for firewall?

[William Kenworthy]

Dont I know it.  What do you ( and other people) use for recording? 
streamer (xawtv) skips too many frames, even on fast hardware, kwintv's
output is not compatible with a lot of players and so on.

BillK


On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 08:00, hooker at iinet.net.au wrote:
> Personal Video Recorder.  A computer which digitises TV and stores it on
> hard disk on request, like Tivo but without the mandatory subscription to a
> service which allows you to download program details and keeps track of
> what you watch.
> 
> Program information is available free if you're willing to pull web pages
> apart (not difficult). The big difficulty, for Linux at any rate, is the
> poor state of device drivers for capture hardware.
> 
> The Hooker
> 
> 
> > PVR ... ???
> > 
> > BillK
> > 
> > On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 21:10, Hook wrote:
> > > I can't help you I'm afraid Daniel, but I'd be interested in any
> comments
> > > that anyone can make about quiet PC cases in general. I'm interested in
> > > putting together a PVR, and one of the things I'm not very impressed by
> is
> > > the noise level of most PCs.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have any helpful comments?
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
-- 
William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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