Topic: Personnal Video Recorder For Xbox! (Read 531 times)

splash911 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 26, 2004, 08:29:00 AM »

Quick update, check XBMC forum for the last post from Gamester17 here :
http://www.xboxmedia...t=ST;f=4;t=5223

FORGET ABOUT THE USB. The goal is not to use the USB ports, but to take a analog TV signal and streamed it to a LAN. TV2LAN.

There already exist some CPU with integrated MPEG2-TS, MPEG4 encoding, AAC and MP3 encoding. The Xbox will not be able to encode real-time MPEG4, I know. That chip is design for that. The actual software on the XBMC would be able to view it. However, PVR's functionnalities are still to be implemented.

And that CPU have TCP/IP protocols integrated, and Ethernet.

Check Nexperia PNX1500

c ya.

Sord_Fish · « **Reply #31 on:** July 26, 2004, 05:12:00 PM »

that chip should do it. i think sticking to mpeg2 transport stream is a good idea as no compresion needs to be done if taken from a digital broadcast ie digital terestrial

i havent fully read about the chip, can it be controlled by tcp/ip?

also if this does go to into some sort of massproduction stage and it is sold it think it would be better to be sold under all playforms instead of just a xbox add on

Edit: also i think tivo features should be worked out after the bx has a prototype. just getting the tv signal to some sort of stream is the way to go tbh

Sord_Fish · « **Reply #32 on:** July 27, 2004, 07:16:00 AM »

the mpeg2 ts would be just the same a streaming a dvd video over the network to xbmc, there is 100mb to play with. what about multichannel streaming is that a posibility so there could be multiple viewers.

I'm not sure what digital tv is streamed as but its digital terestrial

Sord_Fish · « **Reply #33 on:** July 27, 2004, 04:14:00 PM »

my friends have showed me some HDTV TS videos that they have downloaded and they are just save on the harddrive with no compression and the original audio tracks etc. the file sizes are quite big for HDTV around 35mb/s. so a regular dvd stream would be around half that.

i did a quick search for a HDTV capture card and found thisMacro Image Technology's MDP-120 and this HDTV Tuner Cards

what do you think with one of them tuners?

Edit: would it be better to post in xbmc forum?

cykiller · « **Reply #34 on:** July 27, 2004, 07:17:00 PM »

(Please do not try to PM nor email me, Shallax, or Friendtech about the project we will contact you if needed and thank you.)

splash911 · « **Reply #35 on:** July 28, 2004, 07:48:00 AM »

They are not mine! Check www.videotron.com if you like them ;-)

preiter · « **Reply #36 on:** July 30, 2004, 01:16:00 PM »

Sounds like a fun project, but I don't see the point, really.

Buy a $50 video capture card for you PC and set it up to record to a shared directory. Play recorded videos on XBMC across the network.

I think most people with modded xboxes have PCs. Why the rush to take the PC out of the equation?

splash911 · « **Reply #37 on:** July 31, 2004, 12:20:00 PM »

So you'd like to have your PC running all-day streaming all-day to the LAN, so when you're rdy to watch TV, you have TiVO functionnalities.

The goal is clear. Without a PC. That means you can take your Xbox to your grandfather's house, pause live TV, record it, rewind, etc. without any PC setup. Moreover, you don't need to lose your PC power to do that.

And finally it can be a marketing thing. To sell a fully legal Xbox with PVR capabilities without a PC. You just plug everything and it work. No harassment at all. For PC user it means the same thing. Why is their some specialized Video card? To free CPU from specific calculations. I'd like to see you encoding real-time Xvid and Mp3 for when you want to watch the News, you can go back 5 sec to the healine you missed.

gronne · « **Reply #38 on:** July 31, 2004, 05:34:00 PM »

Splash: You said I could take it to grandpa(or whatever), but didn't it require any other hardware also? Will it be possible to bring the xbox to anybody with a digital sattelite reciever and plug the things up?

This seems like a very interesting project, which I hope develops well. Maybe you've already planned it but I think you should update the first post on this thread with all new information. Makes it easier to follow the progress. And I think this topic should be pinned.

rover · « **Reply #39 on:** August 02, 2004, 07:59:00 PM »

You can get usb 'extenders' that just do usb-ethernet-usb. What about taking an eyeTV USB (which has a build in mpeg encoder and usb 2.0) or something similar, attatch it to the usb extender, then teach xbmc to read the 'usb' signal off the ethernet connection?

ie. antennae-usb-ethernet-xbox-xbmc-tv

In Australia we dont have as many channels as you guys do, so there is also the obvious option of somebody actually setting up an internet tv service that is just a broadcasted stream of popular tv channels over the internet. You could leave in the ad's, make it a pay service, or include EXTRA ad's if you wanted to be a shit. It would mean i could watch tv on my laptop too

rover · « **Reply #40 on:** August 02, 2004, 08:49:00 PM »

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This post has been edited by rover: Aug 3 2004, 03:49 AM

clown88 · « **Reply #41 on:** August 03, 2004, 10:31:00 PM »

Sord_Fish · « **Reply #42 on:** August 04, 2004, 08:56:00 AM »

they look pretty clever but they only run at 12mb/s usb 1.1 and on usb2.0

clown88 · « **Reply #43 on:** August 04, 2004, 08:17:00 PM »

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