Cool, thanks for the thought on that Adam. I've got a couple of people offline who are willing to help. I don't have a need to warrant the cost of purchasing a card, yet. I'll definately keep this in mind though in case I decide to do it in the future. I'm in a time crunch right now unfortunately. On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 04:05:04 -0500, Adam Shrode <dtgm at comcast.net> wrote: > > Hey Shawn, I don't have a Tivo, but you should be able to grab a TV card > ($40-100) and input your VCR to the card and record from there. Check > for compatibility of course, I think mine is a Hauppauge, > http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_401.html. You'll also be > interested in the bttv driver then, > http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/bttv.html. > > You need xawtv or nvrec as your software. Keep in mind that > uncompressed avi at 320x200 @ 30 fps with 16k sound will run you about a > gig per 4 minutes so you'll want that compressed, say ... mpeg4? divx? > > - as - > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- -Shawn "That which hits the fan, will not be evenly distributed." _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list