On 2016-11-19 18:43, jdd wrote:
Le 19/11/2016 à 18:31, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
But the difficult thing is finding a suitable tv card that works in Linux without complications.
oh, you mean a TV tuner?
never tried that, TV are so cheap. I use my real TV as computer screen, not the other way round
Yes, but having the TV via computer allows recording, and most importantly, time shift: stop viewing for a while, even hours, and then continue watching from the same point. The output from the card is stored on the hard disk, and another process reads from the hard disk and displays to the monitor. You can go back and forth, fast, slow... With some software, like mythtv, you can play back at 105% of speed, say, to catch up with the delay slowly. When you get to the commercials, jump over. The idea is using a dedicated small computer for this. Currently I have an embedded machine for the purpose, a gigaset M740 AV. I'm considering joining the machine working as home server with the one doing media center, and using a minipc for both things. (thinking aloud) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)