[MPlayer-dev-eng] A TV recording software needed

[Selcuk Ozturk]

Hi,

we are a transcription company that does transcription of broadcast 
news. For that purpose, we need several TV stations constantly recorded 
in chunks. We have developed software to do that for us more than 10 
years ago. But, we don't have the internal bandwidth to maintain and 
upgrade the software as we go on. So, we are still using Linux kernel 
2.4 and video4linux interface. We have to use old, no longer produced 
PC's and video capture cards.

We need a recording system that uses current technology. As far as our 
recording requirements go, they are very low end. We don't need high 
quality video to watch. On the contrary, we need as small files as 
possible. Our current recordings are 1 frame per second, quite small 
screen size and highly compressed with RealMedia codecs. We really only 
need the audio. Video is just for speaker identification purposes. So, 
quality and fluidity is not a requirement.

Our current system records both video+audio and audio only versions 
concurrently. It records in chunks, typically 5 or 10 minute chunks 
continuously 24x7. There is a 10-15 second overlap between recordings so 
the transcripts can be matched together in assembly.

We also capture CC (closed caption) text. Our current software may still 
work with newer kernels. I'm not sure if there was any change to the VBI 
interface.

We would like to hire a developer to either update our software or write 
a new one to do the recordings on current technology (kernels, 
computers, capture cards, sound cards, etc.)

If you are interested, please respond to this email or call me at 
+1-301-440-8810.

Best,

Selcuk Ozturk

VP of Technology

ASC LLC