Ok, I built a PC for the sole purpose of using it with my TV. The main reason was for playing game emulators (SNES, NES, Genesis, etc) but then I thought it would be cool to have it record programs while I'm not playing games or whatever.

Has anybody else done this? Basically I'm looking for suggestions to *completely* automate the process of capturing and encoding the programs and then maybe having a menu program where I can select episodes, etc, etc.

Thanks in advance.

Oh, btw... does anybody know how to control a PC using nothing but a joystick? (A parallel joystick none-the-less... [with a special driver])..