(Den eimai eidikos sto 8ema, opote h parakatw perigrafi isws na 8elei kapoia dior8wsi) Yparxei to project LinuxTV (http://www.linuxtv.org/) to opoio asxoleitai me ti basiki ypostiriji DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) sto Linux, me ti xrisi 'TV tuner' (video capture device a la MythTV). To MythTV basizetai sto LinuxTV kai einai mia value-added efarmogi. Yparxoun diaforwn eidwn TV tuner: - DVB-T (Terrestrial) - DVB-C (Cable) - DVB-S (Satellite) Apo oso jerw, oi parapanw kartes exoun kai hardware MPEG2 decoding, ektos apo ftines ekdoxes DVB-T. http://www.linuxstb.org/dvb-t/index.shtml Genika, den einai dinato na pareis mia karta DVB-T xwris MPEG2 decoding gia na deis psifiaki (terrestrial) tileorasi me to logismiko pou kykloforei. Wstoso, kapoioi xristes Linux kataferan na to kanoun, xrisimopoiwntas software decoding mesw tou 'mplayer'. http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2002/01-2002/msg00393.html Sto UK yparxei to plano h metadosi tileoptikwn programmatvn na ginetai mesw 'Digital Terrestrial', diladi metadosi simpiesmenou stream video me MPEG2 kai aposympiesi apo kapoio kouti pou sindeetai stin tileorasi kai periexei ena MPEG2 decoder. Yparxei odhgia apo to EU gia ti metadosi tileoptikwn programmatvn se psifiaki morfi kapoia stigmi sto mellon? Sto UK ypirxe h etairia OnDigital pou pareixe Digital Terrestrial ypiresies se syndromites kai taftoxrona die8etai mia seira apo kanalia dwrean (BBC3, BBCNews24, ktl). Gia kapoio logo h etairia xrewkopise kai tin agorase to BBC poy meteprepse to diktio se eleftheris xrisis (http://www.freeview.co.uk/), ws mias apo tis ypiresies poy parexei sto koino (To BBC einai opws h ERT, ws pros tous skopous.). Arkei kapoios na agorasei mia siskevi apokwdikophisis (aposympiesi tou psifiakou simatos) kai meta mporei na dei ta dia8esima kanalia. Afti ti stigmi yparxoun 50 synolika kanalia, apo ta opoia 15 peripou einai psifiakoi radiofonikoi sta8moi. Yparxei stin Ellada tetoia anagkh gia Digital Terrestrial i kai gia Digital Satellite? Genika apo ta parapanw pistevw oti yparxei h dynatitota gia emporiki kataskevi ftinwn embedded systimatwn gia psifiaki tileorasi me xrisi Linux. simos ----- Original Message ----- From: Dimitrios Kalogeras <dkalo [ at ] noc [ dot ] ntua [ dot ] gr> To: <T [ dot ] Karounos [ at ] infosoc [ dot ] gr> Cc: RTS <rts [ at ] grnet [ dot ] gr>; open-source <open-source [ at ] grnet [ dot ] gr> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:49 AM Subject: Re: [Rts] [Fwd: [news] Open source equivalent to TiVo] > Exei plaka to koitaza proxthes... > Den gnwrizw me poio tropo an pairnoume EPG apo ta > Digital Satellite. Nomizw oti ginetai alla > sta analogika bouketa den einai standard. > > Theodoros Karounos wrote: > > FYI... > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > From: CAnet-NEWS [ at ] canarie [ dot ] ca > > Subject: [news] Open source equivalent to TiVo > > To: undisclosed-recipients:; > > > > For more information on this item please visit the CANARIE CA*net 4 Optical > > Internet program web site at http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/library/list.html > > ------------------------------------------- > > > > [The attraction of an open source equivalent to TiVO is that may drive demand > > for bandwidth as users share and swap recorded TV files with the distributed > > architecture used by these devices. Excerpts from Wired magazine article - BSA] > > > > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59088,00.html/wn_ascii > > > > Thanks to several open-source projects, you can build your own digital video > > recorder that will blow boxes from TiVo and ReplayTV right off the shelf. > > > > About a dozen collaborative software projects are in the works that will > > transform a spare computer, or one built from off-the-shelf parts, into a > > homemade digital video recorder, or DVR. They also can record multiple shows > > simultaneously, archive shows to video CD, play digital music and computer > > games and display photographs and local weather forecasts. > > > > Thanks to the combined expertise of about half a dozen hackers from all over > > the world, the project is close to assembling a complete software package for > > homemade DVRs. Version 0.9 of the MythTV software is due out next week. > > > > Based on Linux, the free software features an easy-to-use graphical interface, > > which can be navigated with a standard remote. > > > > The MythTV software offers all the basic DVR features -- it can pause and > > rewind live TV, and fast-forward through shows and ads. It supports multiple > > tuner cards (and multiple simultaneous recordings) and boasts > > picture-in-picture capability if there's more than one tuner card installed. It > > also offers basic video-editing capabilities and allows shows to be archived to > > video CD. > > > > MythTV grabs programming information from the Net using XMLTV, an open-source > > project that scrapes television listings off the TV Guide website. > > > > For example, Raffi Krikorian, author of a forthcoming book called TiVo Hacks, > > is planning to build a MythTV DVR from scratch that will record two shows at > > the same time, store about 250 hours of programming, play DivX movies > > downloaded from the Net and archive shows to video CD. The DVR also will record > > radio and play MP3, Ogg Vorbis and other audio formats, while grabbing free > > programming information from the Web. > > > > MythTV has a nifty distributed architecture that allows multiple machines to > > work in concert, recording and streaming shows to each other over a network. > > > > There are about a dozen home-brew DVR projects, all based on Linux. Others > > include Freevo, eBox and the Dave/Dina Project. Krikorian said MythTV was > > probably the most complete and up-to-date. A list of the projects can be found > > at the Linux PVR Depot, which also maintains a database of the hardware used by > > various people. > > ... > > _______________________________________________ > > Rts mailing list > > Rts [ at ] grnet [ dot ] gr > > http://mailman.grnet.gr/mailman/listinfo/rts > > -- > -- > > Dimitrios K. 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