Can anyone recommend a DVB (freeview) card that works in Linux ?
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.
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
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 12:05 +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
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).
Interesting seeing as I already run Hoary. I must say that every time I install Ubuntu (or add some hardware to an existing Ubuntu machine) I become more and more impressed with it's hardware support. I always rated SuSE quite highly in this respect but Ubuntu seems to do even better. (and they seem have a pretty elegant solution to the Nvidia driver redistribution issues)
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.
Ahh Cheers for that, it looks like it may fit the job, Could be handy as a device that I could also use on my laptop. Although I wonder how the included antenna is going to cope with my rather weak DVB reception. I think this could be the one once I have verified your thoughts on potential Linux compatibility.
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"
Hmm Red hot TV doesn't sound like the sort of content I am looking for :-)
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:37:54PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Ahh Cheers for that, it looks like it may fit the job, Could be handy as a device that I could also use on my laptop. Although I wonder how the included antenna is going to cope with my rather weak DVB reception. I think this could be the one once I have verified your thoughts on potential Linux compatibility.
I had a bit more of a look, apparently you need drivers from CVS and they will possibly find their way into 2.6.14... Of course as far as I can tell the antennae for the card is just a normal aerial connection so you could hook it up to a big aerial.
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"
Hmm Red hot TV doesn't sound like the sort of content I am looking for :-)
Same here, I only got it working "because I can" but couldn't be bothered to work out the magic to put the channels into my vdr config.
Adam
Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
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. [...]
As I understand it (and I don't live in freeview coverage), TUTV uses Seca 2, so you need a DVB-T card with a Common Interface slot and a suitable CAM for it (Aston?), then it should take a TUTV viewing card. There doesn't seem to be a CI version of the AirStar (or the SkyStar any more?) but there are versions of the Twinhan and Technotrend.
In June 2005, the latest Twinhans were being hacked around on the linux-dvb list, with no resolution I saw. It seems that Technotrend CIs are also not very simple yet, but there are anonymous reports of it working. Both brands sell many different card versions in the same boxes, as far as I can tell. :-/
Hope that points in the right direction,
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Can anyone recommend a DVB (freeview) card that works in Linux ?
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.
Hi,
I'm using two Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T DVB (model number 909) cards in a MythTV box. These cards do not support TOTV, but there's nothing worth watching on there anyway.
I'm using a standard 2.6.12 kernel which supports these cards with no problems at all.
Let me know if you want to know configs.
HTH
Chris
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:26:08 +0100 (BST) Chris Glover chris@glovercc.plus.com wrote:
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Can anyone recommend a DVB (freeview) card that works in Linux ?
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.
Hi,
I'm using two Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T DVB (model number 909) cards in a
MythTV box. These cards do not support TOTV, but there's nothing worth
watching on there anyway.
I'm using a standard 2.6.12 kernel which supports these cards with no problems at all.
Let me know if you want to know configs.
HTH
Chris
-- Chris
I'm using one Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T DVB card and it works fine for me, quite impressive infact.
i didnot get MythTV to work so am experimenting with different setups but feel I should try again.
use a reasent kernel and you will see many DVB cards are now supported
regards
owen synge
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