[TriLUG] anyone want a freevo system?

[Greg Brown]

I am in need of a Personal Video Recording system.  I like the 
Linux-based Freevo system as it appears to do most of what I would like 
to have in a system.  Only one problem  - I have Direct-TV satellite 
and not standard cable.  From the looks of it Freevo is more or less a 
cable-only thing.  I've checked around with some other roll-your-own 
PVRs from Myth TV and the "Dave Dina Project" but nothing matches the 
hardware I have at the house - but Freevo is the closest (except for 
that DirectTV thing).

So, people, the question is does anyone else on the list want a Freevo 
system that also has DirectTV?  It would be nice to collaborate with 
someone on this project instead of having to worry about modifying the 
entire system myself (given that I'll probably have to learn python at 
the very least just to get started).

To throw yet another monkey-wrench into the system I'd also like the 
modded Freevo to be able to record radio shows as well - mostly This 
American Life and other NPR stuff.  I'd like to rip those shows to MP3 
(yes, yes, I know) so I can play them back via my iPod.  But that's 
really a gravy-train kinda feature.

The good news is Mark Turner has already forwarded me some links on how 
to change channels on the DirectTV system via the serial port using 
Perl, so at least that small part is one.

Is anyone else interested in setting up a group effort/hack on this 
project?

Greg

Some links:

http://freevo.sourceforge.net			- Freevo's main page
http://www.mythtv.org				- Myth TV
http://davedina.apestaart.org/content/ 	- The Dave Dina Project