[ale] Recording TV shows?

[Jim Kinney]

John,
I would think that the digital tuner box would fit between your antennae and
the VCR so your current setup won't change.
The digital broadcast will not affect cable as is it not over the air.
The one converter I have looked at is from Best Buy and it has stereo audio
out ports.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8624081&type=product&id=1199495190393

Disclaimer: I pretty much despise Best Buy (and Wal Mart - another source
for the $60 converter) and the Radio Shack version are not stereo sound but
mono only.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:05 PM, John Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:

> I'm blind and i want to record just the audio for certain TV shows. Right
> now, I have a cable running from the audio-out on my VCR to the line-in on
> the sound card of my linux box. I then use sox & oggenc to record the
> shows
> in ogg format.
>
> But in February 2008, this ain't gonna work because my VCR tuner won't
> work.
> I suppose I could by a converter box but that seems to be adding more
> complexity to a system that is already rather unwieldy.
>
> Is there a simpler way? Can I get a digital TV tuner that connects
> directly
> to a USB port? Or maybe a converter box with an audio out?
>
>
> Maybe I'm asking for the impossible. I thought about simply getting a TV
> tuner card for inside the computer but I thought it would be impossible
> for
> a blind guy to configure.  It would have to have a  CUI setup program.
> Linux
> is great for using text files and command line programs. But for a TV
> card?
>
>
>
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