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Re: TV with Linux

On 10/04/12 23:41, Sian Mountbatten wrote:

Hi All

The subject is pretty confusing. I've ordered a Hauppauge DVD-T Nova-T
USB stick and I've downloaded a 7zip file with all the firmware files
required. I've been able to check that the firmware for the Nova-T is
now installed in /lib/firmware. What now?

Ok, eventually the TV tuner will arrive and I've also ordered a small TV
aerial. So, I connect the aerial to the tuner, connect the tuner to the
PC via a USB port. Then what? I gather there is a remote control with 45
buttons on it. Seems a lot to me.
In theory, when you plug in the stick the corect driver module will be loaded, which will pull in the firmware and create a device called /dev/video0. You will be able to use that device to watch and record TV programmes. 


I've found a web page about XBMC and I've succeeded in compiling xbmc
for my Linux desktop. The xbmc-bin file is gigantic: 145MB of binary and
it still requires 115 libraries! Do I have to have XBMC. What will it
enable me to do which I couldn't do without?

Has anybody on the list got TV on Linux and, if so, what did you do to
get it working? Any comments would be much appreciated (I don't have
room for a standalone TV set so TV on Linux is my only option).
I have been using MythTV from the debian-multimedia repository for about 6 years now, (they have xbmc pre-compiled too), on an old PC with four PCI digital TV tuner cards in. MythTV can record multiple (adjacent) channels on each card - I've got mine set to a maximum of 6 channels per card, so *could* record 24 programmes at once. This, of course, is silly and I'd never need to do it, but sometimes one programme starts before another ends. MythTV can be a bit fiddly to set up intially, but is easy to use after that.
My next goal is to see if I can set up a Raspberry Pi as a MythTV frontend, so I can have the noisy backend machine in another room - I just need to get my hands on one first :-) 
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Dom
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