I forgot that I had an old Dell Vostro 1520 laying around with Windows XP- Intel Duo 2.20GHz, 2 GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive and USB 2.0. I created a bootable USB drive with Ubnutu 16.04 then booted it into the laptops BIOS. I completely replaced the Windows OS with the Ubuntu OS. I set the power settings so the laptop would always be on even with the lid closed. I already had a WD single drive NAS but I couldn’t figure out how to mount to the network drive in Ubnutu so I purchased a Toshiba 1TB external hard drive and linked a folder from the external hard drive to my Home files. I copied the Channels DVR setup script then paste it into the Ubnutu terminal. I pointed the Channels DVR to that file and Holy Crap I had a working DVR. Well almost. I had first chosen the Comcast Cable guide and nothing would work? I then chose the Comcast digital guide and the SD guide on the Apple TV. It works like a dream. I haven’t tested the commercial detection yet but the guide seemed to be working.
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I think we need to hide the non-Digital options because I agree it’s confusing.
Commercial detection works great and software transcoding @ 360p works good on my iPhone without any stuttering. The picture quality looks better than i would expect at 360p.
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Will this old Intel processor work with your hardware acceleration? If it will work do I need to run this script in the Terminal: sudo adduser $(id -u -n) video or just save the DVR recordings in the Video file? Forgive me for my lack of understanding.
the Intel Core 2 Duo T6670 doesnt have hardware transcoding. but is plenty powerful for software TC.
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