[Gllug] New home linux system

[Sean Burlington]

Jack Bertram wrote:
> * Sean Burlington <sean at uncertainty.org.uk> [050125 14:18]:
> 
>>I have a DVB card which gives me the freeview channels in great quality 
>>- they are saved as the arrive in MPEG2 format so the file size is quite 
>>large and compressing to MPEG4 is apparently tricky to get right but I 
>>haven't tried it yet.
> 
> 
> Which DVB card do you have?  Would you recommend it, or another one?
> 


The box said Hauppage WinTV nova-t

but there are lots of different chipsets sold under the same name ...

I had to patch in the latest drivers from
http://cvs.bytesex.org/video4linux.html

and I don't have a working remote at them moment (but development seems 
very active)

There are better supported chipsets - the problem is just finding out 
what you are buying...


>>The web interface to program listings & recording schedules is really 
>>easy to use.
> 
> 
> Presumably I can use this remotely as well as from my home?

yep - it's just php so you can serve it however you want.

> 
>>I was tempted by the hard disk recorders now available commercially but 
>>according to reviews these are still buggy and the tv guide transmited 
>>on the DVB signal is incomplete for some channels.
> 
> 
> Where does MythTV get its tv guide from?  Does it do things like
> rescheduling recording if programme scheduling changes?
> 

It uses http://membled.com/work/apps/xmltv/

I use the grabber for radiotimes.com (they provide a parseable text 
version after negotiation with the xmltv team)

Other grabbers are available including one that uses the dvb data (this 
includes radio listings which ironically aren't in radiotimes ...)


>>In the end I decided that MythTV has a feature set that isn't even 
>>nearly matched elsewhere ...
> 
> 
> I'm very tempted.

go on - you know you want to :)

it's even popular with the non-techie in the house

-- 

Sean
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