On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 15:21, Ryan Oertel wrote: > For now, I was going to use my main computer for recording, compression > and storage of the video, and playback on the 'slow' one. Well, even playing back video will be a scary experience on that box. You might be able to get something to play if you use a very low capture resolution on the main computer. Also, at least for MythTV, it might work better to use the RTJPEG codec instead of the MPEG4 one.. I imagine decoding would be easier in the first format.. > One side question: how easily does the setup work with DirecTV? Can the > computer remote-control the DTV receiver? How easy is the user > interface for watching/pausing/recording TV? There are infrared transmitters available that you can plug into a serial port to send the correct codes to the receiver to change channels. I've also heard that some cable/satellite boxes have serial ports on them for this, but I don't know if anyone knows how to use them (the thought has also occurred to me that this is a reason why there's a USB port on the digital cable boxes that Time Warner uses, but I don't know for sure) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ #define ENONSEQUETOR /* C / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Program not derived from \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) `Hello World' */ [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030719/636dd3f8/attachment.pgp