dvr

[haloplayer1990]

unlessi missed it in the details, and one of the chips has it, i want to record tv directly to my xbox, like a DVR.......

Maybe through a rec button on the front, and it auto records which ever channel your watching or something.

Although i don't know how it will work, the tv will probably need a tv/audio out, and the xbox will need an audio/video in.....

just my crazy stupid idea.........but it would be cool, and i wouldn;t have to pay for tivo anymore!

 

[C0Ld_BuG]

This is impossible...you would have to make an entire new chip that could somehow have video in and I don't even think that is possible.

 

[itsmee129]

oh yea well it would be cool

 

[DigitalMerchants]

it would be really cool because people would not have to buy a damn 200$+ Tivo just so that they could record TV.

 

[tikiboy]

It's possible. I've read up on Xbox Linux projects that let you use a Gentoox Xbox as a DVR "front-end" and a linux PC with a TV-In card as a "back-end". So if you had an old PC with a TV card, a back closet or basement to stuff it into, a home network, and working knowledge of Linux, you could make an Xbox a decent interface for DVR.

 

[Demonhawk]

umm thats pointless cuz usually on a pc that has a tv input card u can usually do tivo like functions anyways. A better plan to make the xbox have video in, would be to have someone write drivers for the usb Dazzle video capture device, and run it under gentoox

 

[Telexen]

it can be done, but the Xbox is not powerful enough to record video. Many people use an xbox port of MythTV as a frontend for a PC running MythTV...but that's the best you can do

 

[wHack]

think I saw something on gentoox's site about a usb video tuner and configuring it to work with gentoox not sure though

 

[wHack]

OK went back and found some info on it
http://forums.shallax.com/viewtopic.php?t=469&highlight=usb
http://forums.shallax.com/viewtopic.php?t=1755&highlight=usb

sounds like it can be done but only with a usb 1.1 tv capture device at less than perfect quality and most likely will be very difficult to implement outside of a linux environment

 

[DigitalMerchants]

how would u first even be able to get the tv to come on ur xbox?

 

[wHack]

usb input from a usb based capture card

 

[Xecuter]

there are tivo plugins for xbmc i believe

 

[wHack]

those require an xternal dvr I think. I think I read something saying they where trying to implement it in XBMC but it's difficult because they need to write fully custom usb drivers for the usb vid capture cards

 

[DigitalMerchants]

but instead of doing that ,u might as well watch it on ur regular damn tv. cuz after this we will all probably start wanting features like PIP,HDTV,etc.

 

[tikiboy]

There are only two ways:
1 - Slow USB 1.1 Video Capture Device with Linux drivers. You're adding this to a system with low RAM and very specific graphics capability. It'd work, but not well.

2 - Use a slave PC as a back-end device. This is kind of cool, and as soon as I round up enough parts, I want to try it. The idea is that the slave PC sits in the corner of your house somewhere with a TV card in it hooked up to your cable line. You actually control what it records and plays back over the network through your Xbox. This is nice, since you don't have to have a bulky PC near your TV to use the TiVo features, and you can turn the Xbox off and take it somewhere, and your programs will still record. It'd also save on Xbox hard drive space, since none of the video would be stored locally.

Xecuter, XBMC does support TiVo over LAN. I wonder if it would be easier to just find a way for my PC to emulate the TiVo server?

 

[Bad2bones]

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/xboxmediacenterextender.htm

can the xbox media center xtender record TV?