[BUGA] Re: Multimedia

[Mark Newton]

Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> That's part of the problem, yes.  Another is probably the recording
> industry doing its damndest to make it difficult for people to find
> out how the existing equipment works.

I think by and large most folks are ignoring the recording industry.
No DRM scheme they've devised yet has been able to prevent us consumer
units from doing what we want to do;  We just alter the way we do it
to work around the DRM, using products mostly sourced from countries
where the *IA's don't carry as much sway.

>> The fact that you've dismissed mythtv as too-hard tells a story
>> about what you see as the basics, but the vendors of TV tuner
>> devices have a different picture of what the basics look like
>> (notably: Viewing TV in a window on your computer -- that's pretty
>> basic, isn't it?)
> 
> Correct.  Currently I can't do it because I don't know the correct
> settings for the tuner card.

Having trouble conceiving of any settings more complicated than
"Australian Channel Set" and "PAL output."  What else does it want?

     - mark

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