Re: ShowShifter setups

["Matt Pavall" <matt@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Dr John Tankard" <john@s...> wrote:
> Reading the previous posts on showshifter I am interested in trying
it out,
> but I have a few questions before I rush out and get a capture
card:-
>
> Whats the best video card ?
> What do people do for the IR control ?
> Does it run under W2K server ?
> I can see that IR control would be good for not sat channels but
you do you
> integrate Sky without using loads of remotes, or is this one for
the pronto
> ? (Sophie I have told you before the Pronto does not live in the
coal bucket
> !)
>
> My PC's are rack mounted in node 0 (My office), should I be moving
the Sky
> box up to my office and using KAT5's ?
>
> Do people using it have a PC that they just use for showshifter and
use it
> like an appliance, and do they remove the monitor and just use the
TV ?
>
> Sorry for all the questions I don't want to change my setup unless
this is
> going to be good
>
> John

I'm using an Hauppauge WinTV PCI card with very reasonable results.
There's a Active-something-Sys? IR dongle that you can run off the
serial port but I haven't tested it myself. I installed both
ShowShifter and SnapStream on a Win2k box and ended up keeping
SnapStream for it's network-friendly web interface and Windows Media
format files you can play back on any PC on the home LAN. ShowShifter
uses a private file format by default which is fine you intend to
play them back on the same PC as your record it on.

Cheers,
Matt





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