Technical Advice
Abuser
I've been wondering about creating a freeview (terrestrial) digital
viewer using an Intel PC and a 1024x768 widescreen monitor. I like this
idea as it would also allow me to surf and do email from my living room PC.
Basicly I need advice on the hardware, I've had a look around the web
and on this newsgroup on PCI cards that can do the decoding but I'm not
up on which grpahics cards or monitors I should be looking at.
I'm also a Linux junkie so i'd be interested on any infomation regarding
OS's and quality of API's/software etc.
Obviously I have a budget but out of interest whats the best money can
buy (within reason).
Regards
Simon
Darren Wilkinson
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The best tv card currently on sale the the general public is the Nebula
DigiTV as the Hauppauge Nova-t (the only other digital tv card I can think
of) does not have adequate capture software and no third party software can
decode the picture. The decoding for the cards currently available in
England is done by the software; the tv cards just stream the data to the
software.
Linux support is currently nonexistent for the Nebula DigiTV but they are
going to add support. Support for the Nova-t is also minimal - there is no
digital tv mpeg2 decoding software for linux.
Ther best money can buy would probably (I haven't used it) be the Hauppauge
Nexus-t which has hardware decoding and plenty of third party support. They
are dificult to get hold of though (see the thread called 'Success in
obtaining the TT-DVB-T Premium receiver' - it's the same card')
Richard Walker
>
> I've been wondering about creating a freeview (terrestrial) digital
> viewer using an Intel PC and a 1024x768 widescreen monitor. I like
> this idea as it would also allow me to surf and do email from my
> living room PC.
1024x768 isn't widescreen.
My computer has a 1440x900 widescreen LCD, and it rocks! :)
> I'm also a Linux junkie so i'd be interested on any infomation
> regarding OS's and quality of API's/software etc.
I use the Nebula DVB-t card with Linux. It's *way* better than the
Hauppauge Nova-t card (I think the Nebula tuner is much better at coping
with a weaker signal).
I'm able to record a single programme stream (e.g. BBC ONE) or a single
transport stream (e.g. MUX C) to disk, and it plays back OK.
Darren Wilkinson
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I thought the DigiTV wasn't yet supported in linux. Would you mind giving a
brief description of the software you use?
Richard Walker
>
> wanting to be humiliated. "Richard Walker" <runny...@ntlworld.com>
> wrote in message news:20030325184...@news.cis.dfn.de...
> >
> > Hauppauge Nova-t card (I think the Nebula tuner is much better at
> > coping with a weaker signal).
> >
> > I'm able to record a single programme stream (e.g. BBC ONE) or a
> > single transport stream (e.g. MUX C) to disk, and it plays back OK.
>
> I thought the DigiTV wasn't yet supported in linux. Would you mind
> giving a brief description of the software you use?
Yeah, sure.
I'm running Debian (unstable) with kernel 2.4.20. The kernel has been
patched to include the 'Video for Linux 2' system (which is included by
default in the 2.5.x kernels).
In addition, I use the dvb-kernel modules (linuxtv.org), along with a
patched version of bttv 0.9.4 (bytesex.org). Using the standard DVB
applications, dvbstream and dvbtune, I can record to disk. If I wanted,
I could pipe the output to MPlayer, and have it displayed on the screen (
but I don't!).
I've been meaning to write a complete 'HOW TO' document for the last few
weeks. I'll get around to it soon - I promise! :)
By the way, the code isn't mine - I'm testing it.
Ian Clark
So it uses the Convergence/Siemens API, great! If you want to copy bits
from my rough guide at <http://www.linux101.org/DTTV_on_Linux> feel free.
BTW, I've heard that the 2.5 series has the convergence driver merged, I
haven't got round to trying this however.