Coordinated Regional Video Archiving..

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Pavan

Based on what you said we could "TiVo" it, right? Maybe instead of people with VCR's we could TiVo it and it would be a little easier?

Pavan.

I don't believe you can take in a A/V feed (ie. Anything thats NOT Coax) with a Tivo. Plus, they put DRM on top of anything recorded.

Theres a few things I would do:
1) Record to mini DV tapes. It would take a bunch, but it would be pretty easy. Just plug your mini DV camcorder into the feed and hit record. You can rip and parse the videos later.
2) Use a miniDV cam as a pass through, and use the firewire connection to get the video feed directly into your computer. This will take up alot of hard drive space, so be weary.
3) Use a capture card (preferably one with MPEG2 hardware support, like the Hauppuage cards..) and record straight data to the hard drive. If one really feels adventerous they can do the parsing real time.

Now I believe if you have a good enough computer, you can open a DV stream (very big, like 25 mb/s) and do real time encoding with VLC or somethign similar. I think this is how SOAP does their webcasts. Then, you could save the smaller sized feed to your hard drive.