24/7 recording - questions and help needed :)

[oyci3c]

Hello there!

I dont know where to put this so my guess hit the General Discussion board.

As topic title states.

I want to record TV signal for several TV channels 24/7 and save the stream in fragments (15min fragments) to a single destinantion.

My questions:

1. Will http://www.hauppauge.com/index.htm hardware be enough? Any specific model?
2. Is it doable with NextPVR software?
3. Can I put timeframe and for example logotype on movie material "live during recording"?

Thanks in advance for any information, I'm new in this and I don't know where to start :(

[steeb]

Hello there!

I dont know where to put this so my guess hit the General Discussion board.

As topic title states.

I want to record TV signal for several TV channels 24/7 and save the stream in fragments (15min fragments) to a single destinantion.

My questions:

1. Will http://www.hauppauge.com/index.htm hardware be enough? Any specific model?
2. Is it doable with NextPVR software?
3. Can I put timeframe and for example logotype on movie material "live during recording"?

Thanks in advance for any information, I'm new in this and I don't know where to start

I suppose the first question back at you would be why would you want to do this? Record several TV channels at 24/7?

cheers

steeb

[oyci3c]

This is for my personal software project where this recording is one of the many steps.

[stustunz]

Why 15 minute segments instead of program by program ?

[steeb]

This seems to me to be one of those infinite questions so far..

You gave a link to hauppauge general, you would need to establish what your capture device is. Analogue, DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C? You say several channels 24/7? How would you do this with one card? etc etc. I think you would need to be more specific with what reception devices you may have available. Why several channels at 24/7 before even beginning to think about fragments and wow the size of hdd you may need to stuff all of this onto!!!

cheers

steeb

[mvallevand]

You could likely write a program that generated a custom XMLTV file, give them all the same name, and then create a recurring recording. With DVB and padding you could probably get every second. With .net you could even create the 96 manual entries per channel programmatically. I would leave a bit of a maintenance window to allow reloading at at time you could afford to not record anything.

It could take a lot of disk space. An HD channel here could be 8GB hour.

Martin

[oyci3c]

Thanks for the replies.

Let me clear some things.

1. One channel per one device which records (or streams?) 24/7.
2. Software on a PC which receives the stream, compress it to lower size (I dont need HD quality) and put it in 15min fragments on HDD.
3. Few persons will take those 15min pieces and look for a specific marketing material cutting the 15min fragments into smaller ones if they find anything interesting.

As for video and sound input - it's whatever for me, something that will deliver the av to the device.

It will be max 2-3 channels in the beginning.

Writing a software for video capturing and saving it into 15min fragments is not an option - that's why I'm looking for something like this on the market We don't have time and resources for this

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

[jam_zhou]

wouldn't you just do manual recordings for each channel at 15 minute intervals? Ensure there's no pre nor post padding and it should work? It's a little tedious to set up

thats: 4 segments/hour x 24 hours * 3 channels = 288 entries. Assuming one minute each entry that's 288 minutes = 4.8 hours!!

I think it would be better to make fake epg. That way you can somewhat customize it later on.

[cncb]

You might want to look into the Snapstream solution if money is no object since it sounds like it might be similar to what you are trying to do.

[oyci3c]

@jam_zhou:

No, manual recording is not an option - it must be done automaticaly all day and night long
Well thats the project plan for 15 minutes mark recordings but the timeframe might be expanded.

@cncb

Thanks! I will take a look at this.