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XBox as a DVR
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:09 pm
by SirAlucard
I was wondering if there was anyway of turning my XBox into a dedicated DVR and adding something like Freevo or something similar. I know there are USB tuners out there but does anyone know if there are linux drivers for any of these tuners and if it can even be done. I dont care about playing games or anything else on it. I think going this route would be cheaper than buying another TIVO.
Re: XBox as a DVR
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:32 am
by Tsuroerusu
SirAlucard wrote:I was wondering if there was anyway of turning my XBox into a dedicated DVR and adding something like Freevo or something similar. I know there are USB tuners out there but does anyone know if there are linux drivers for any of these tuners and if it can even be done. I dont care about playing games or anything else on it. I think going this route would be cheaper than buying another TIVO.
Dude the Xbox doesn't have the power for that!
XBox as a DVR
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:14 pm
by SirAlucard
yeah, your probably right but the tivo is pretty weak too. I thought if TIVO units can handle it, so should the xbox. Oh well, I was just hoping.
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:01 pm
by clpalmer
If you can find a USB HW MPEG2 encoder, I imagine the xbox could take care of the rest, but I'm not sure if they exist.
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:07 pm
by nobspangle
All USB tv cards are h/w mpeg2 encoders, there's no way you could get the video down the cable any other way, there just isn't the bandwidth