Is recording from HDTV's S/PDIF to hard disk possible?

[nyc_paramedic]

I usually enjoy watching PBS's Austin City Limits; many great indie and country/folk bands. I especially enjoy listening to the show on my Accurian HDTV tuner with its S/PDIF output (48 Khz sampling) connected to my Adcom DAC.

Thing is, some really amazing shows (Wilco, Arcade Fire, Ghostland Observatory) haven't been repeated. No one is selling (legal) DVD's of these programs.

Is there any (not insanely expensive) way to save the S/PDIF output to a hard disk, perhaps via USB, for future listening?

Keep in mind that I live in a strictly Linux household...

 

[Rempert]

I have no idea what your options are in Linux, but this should be a fairly simple task using any sound card with a digital input.

 

[Ech0]

You could record the video / audio through a digital tuner. An Airstar HD5000, Kworld ATSC 110 and Air2Pc first generation cards all would work within a linux enviroment. The Air2PC cards could only be used with OTA signals. I'm not sure if you're interested in this type of thing, recording both video and audio.

You could watch the full video or dmux out the audio.

Ech0

 

[thomaspf]

you could use a USB adapter that has digital inputs and works with the standard USB audio driver. I have not tested this on Linux but the Edirol UA-1EX seems to work just fine on Windows using the standard driver and it supports digital recording via toslink input. You might have to configure your Linux kernel to include the USB audio driver.

Then you can use a program like Audacity to do the actual recording.

Cheers

Thomas

 

[nyc_paramedic]

Thanks for the replies. I thought it was a bit more complicated.