Re: TV with Linux
On 11/04/12 06:04, Dom wrote:
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 :-)
I have a Mythtv setup on my Debian Squeeze home server (which also
serves as everything else - mail, web, internet firewall...) and watch
it from my Debian Sid desktop.
I also have a RaspberryPi on "order" (I am in a queue with RS to be able
to order one) with the same intention. I suspect (although not yet 100%
sure) that the special xbmc version made for the Pi will read data from
a MythTv backend. There is one Gotcha that I wasn't able to get a clear
answer on when I asked - the incoming digital signal is in MPEG2 format
and MythTV stores the stream as mpeg2. The PI only has a (firmware)
codec for Mpeg4, so not sure if transcoding between mpeg2 and mpeg4 is
going to be necessary.
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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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