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<H2><A NAME="s5">5. Further Information</A></H2>
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In this section, you'll find more information on additional utilities or ideas for making a VCR
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work under Linux.
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<H2><A NAME="ss5.1">5.1 MyVCR Wrapper Program proposal</A>
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<P>We need a wrapper program that provides us with the ability to do the following things (from a main menu)
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<LI>Archive recorded shows to CDR/CDRW/DVDRAM</LI>
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<LI>Play Recorded shows (From hard disk or prompt for the media!)</LI>
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<LI>Set record times for recording shows - use tvguide.com as a source for showtimes. A program
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that accesses tvguide.com for showtimes is:
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<A HREF="http://http://www.cherrynebula.net/projects/tvguide/tvguide.php">tvguide.com perl program</A></LI>
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<LI>Be fully configurable to used preferred recorder/player.</LI>
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<LI>See
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<A HREF="http://www.s.netic.de/gfiala/">Kvdr</A> as a possible place to start.</LI>
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<H2><A NAME="ss5.2">5.2 Alternate Recorders</A>
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<A HREF="http://mars.tuwien.ac.at/~roman/nuppelvideo">Slow-CPU Capture Program</A></LI>
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<A HREF="http://www.ee.up.ac.za/~justin/bttv">Vstream</A></LI>
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<A HREF="http://www.ee.up.ac.za/~justin/videostuff">Qdvt</A></LI>
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<H2><A NAME="ss5.3">5.3 Recording Results</A>
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<LI>Serge Wroclawski - 200mhz CPU is not fast enough.</LI>
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<LI>Brian Hayward - 900mhz Duron is fast enough.</LI>
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<LI>Brian Hayward - 875mhz Duron is fast enough.</LI>
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<LI>Stephen Moore - 500mhz Celeron CPU is not fast enough.</LI>
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<H2><A NAME="ss5.4">5.4 Other Suggested Ideas</A>
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<LI>Describe recording from FM Tuner (radio) card and piping it to oggvorbiz or mp3encoder.</LI>
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<LI>Cable Descramblers:
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<A HREF="http://fscktv.fortyoz.org/">fscktv</A> and
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<A HREF="http://linux.davecentral.com/cgi-bin/homepage.pl?6158">CableTV</A>.</LI>
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<LI>Figure out how to implement
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<A HREF="http://www.righto.com/papers/vcr.html">VCR+</A></LI>
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<LI>Check out the
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<A HREF="http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/index.htm">Video Disk Recorder Project</A> -
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build your own digital satellite receiver.</LI>
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<LI>Check out the
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<A HREF="http://linuxtv.org/">LinuxTV project</A>.</LI>
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<LI>A Menu Driven Video Recorder:
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<A HREF="http://www.s.netic.de/gfiala/">Kvdr</A></LI>
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