Video Recording on computer

[fatboy]

I want to hook up my Direct TV reciever to my computer and be able to record the shows to the harddrive. Then I want to be able to record it to a DVD recorder so that I can watch it on my DVD player that is connected to my tv. Is there any sites that explain how to do this and what is the best hardware and software to do this with. I am planning on running linux if possible to do this but if I have to I will run Windows. Thanks for any input.


fatboy!

 

[frostgiant]

To do this you have two paths:
1) Standard Video Capture card - write the data uncompressed (at full quality that is going to be ~40MB/second) meaning you will need a ton of hard drive space with a really fast hard drive. After you capture the uncompressed video, you need to run it through an MPEG encoder to DVD quality, which will take a couple hours for a 30 minute show, even on a 2.0Ghz machine.
2) Hardware MPEG capture card - using this route, a PCI card encodes the incoming video on the fly, meaning much less hard drive space is necessary. The downside is these cards are expensive (around $500 for one that can handle DVD quality, I would recommend looking at Pinaccle cards). But since you have a DVD burner and stuff, I'll assume you have a lot of money.

 

[fatboy]

Nope I am poor..... I am planning on purchasing a DVD recorder in the very near future. That is why I am trying to find any information I can on video editing. I am planning on building a system around video editing. I was wondering if the ATI All in Wonder 7500 would do this?


fatboy!

 

[Rally1]

yes the AIW would do the Mpeg recording