a different kind of video recorder?

[Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de>]

What is if you want to use the DVB card directly within your desktop computer,
not like Klaus Schmidingers's extra box?

I thought about a program with just the features of Klaus' one, but not using
the on-screen-display - using X-dialogs and displaying the video as overlay just
like gVideo does.

Why should one do this?
- better image quality
- higher refresh rate, no flicker
- save the money for an extra tv set
- edit/cut videos and store them on dat-tapes
- and of course if you have one of those 50 inch monitors on your desk ;-)

Of course, gVideo could be improved to do so.
For recording i thought of using the "at" and "cron" daemons, think we do not
need to invent the wheel again ;-)

BTW, does the Siemens card support simultanous record/playback for different 
sources - e.g. recording one program while viewing a pre-recorded file?

I have probably not the time and experience to write such a program all on my
own, but i would like to help programing if someone or more would participate...