VCR-HOWTO - Using your GNU/Linux computer as a VCR: Further Information

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## 5. Further Information

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

## 5.1 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.

## 5.2 Alternate Recorders

- Slow-CPU Capture Program
- Vstream
- Qdvt

## 5.3 Recording Results

- Serge Wroclawski - 200mhz CPU is not fast enough.
- Brian Hayward - 900mhz Duron is fast enough.
- Brian Hayward - 875mhz Duron is fast enough.
- Stephen Moore - 500mhz Celeron CPU is not fast enough.

## 5.4 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+
- Check out the Video Disk Recorder Project - build your own digital satellite receiver.
- Check out the LinuxTV project.
- A Menu Driven Video Recorder: Kvdr

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