Adam Charrett wrote:
> On Mon, November 24, 2008 7:33 pm, Pascal Schirrmann wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I finally add a DVB USB stick on my (very gifted ;-) ) freevo box.
>>
>> I must say that adding this stick was fairly easy (I just had a trouble
>> obtaining a good channels.conf file, but that's out of topic).
>>
>> But after adding the correct entries in TV_VIDEO_GROUPS and TV_CHANNELS,
>> I started freevo, and the ivtv_xine_tv plugins complains about my dvb
>> group.
>>
>> So I went back to the generic tv player and I can watch analog and
>> digital TV broadcast (I still have a trouble recording, but I think I
>> could deal with that.
>>
>> But I lost all new toys, like live pause and so on. And I think that the
>> dvb livepause (livepause2) plugin give this kind of option for digital
>> TV, like ivtv_xine_tv does for analog TV.
>>
>> Funniest part is that in the two cases, a TV broadcast is for freevo a
>> MPEG flow (more or less) So I believe one plugin could do the trick for
>> the two cases.
>>     
>
> Yep thats right.
>
>   
>> Right now, is there a solution ? I'm maybe missing a well known solution
>> (let me hope :-) ) ?
>>     
>
> Yes and no, I put together a patch for livepause that should allow it to
> work with ivtv cards, but I haven't been able to test it (no PVR card here
> only DVB) and I haven't submitted it yet.
>
> Perhaps the best thing to do is submit the patch and put a link to the new
> app that is also required to make ivtv and livepause play nicely togther,
> Duncan what do you think? (oh and of course find some time to write the
> instuctions ;-) )
>
> Cheers
>
> Adam
I'd promised to try test that, sorry. Over Christmas looks like a good 
time (and often is for others) so maybe posting to the tracker then an 
announcement to the list to ask for testers would be good.

John

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