On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:11:15AM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Can anyone recommend a DVB (freeview) card that works in Linux ?
Not really, I have a twinhan dvb-t dst terr pci card, which works but not all that well although I suspect later kernels work better with this card. (Although it does work with Ubuntu Hoary out the box if you tweak a few bits).
There is this http://www.freecom.com/ecNewsitem.asp?ID=4121 which has Linux support (so I am led to believe) which does look rather interesting though, and would possibly be the first thing on my shopping list if I was looking for a new card today.
Does such a thing exist ? Also what is the state of Top up TV support on PC based Freeview receivers, is it possible or is Top up TV restricted to set top boxes.
I don't think that there are any cards that support tits-up-tv that work with Linux or Windows but I could be wrong. There is a way to get content from Xtraview and "Red hot tv" for free if you can be bothered as these are broadcast unencrypted but with some magic to put a data stream over the top of them and to hide the audio and video multiplexes so you can't tune to them easily. With linux you just dump the entire multiplexed stream with some command line tool or other and then unpack it looking at each multiplex until you find the ones you want and then type them into your tuning file ;)
Adam