Re: [mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card
David wrote: There was some good advice on Nova-Ts in the archives - fairly easy to search for. Also easy to find on google. Do you have good DVB reception? This is a good link for UK digital TV - what cable to use from the aerial etc... http://www.megalithia.com/elect/index.html I currently have usually bad DVB reception (upgrading the aerial wire next week) - and Mythbackend sometimes has problems 'cos it can't sync. It's also impossible to say don't record on this input so as soon as you get xmltv going it will schedule for it and you'll have to delete shows by hand. David Thanks David. I'll have a search about in the archives. I've been reading plenty of stuff on the web and I know a fair bit more about DVB today than I did yesterday! I had a look at the megalithia site and I have good line of site to Billsdale (no obstructions) and I'm 21 miles away. Since I already have a good loft space aerial I'm going to borrow a friends set top box over the weekend and see what kind of reception I get from it. If it's not great I'll have to have an outdoor aerial fitted. With regard to Myth choosing the second tuner, I had assumed that it would use the first input (my 250) unless there was a conflict and then try to resolve it using the new input (Nova-T) is this the case ? Cheers Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card
I set my nova-t as the first input, that way I don't tie up my sky box by recording a freeview channel, unless i'm recording 2 channels. There is nothing more annoying than getting halfway through a recording, only to find that the missus has changed sky channel, or left it on the sky guide for 20 minutes! (and that is despite having an LCD on the box which shows if/what it's recording) The only problem I had was with scanning the channels, cuz I have a cr4p aerial. I had to manually enter the frequencies in mythtvsetup and do a search then. But this shouldn't be a problem with a decent aerial. On 18/01/06, Paul Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David wrote: There was some good advice on Nova-Ts in the archives - fairly easy to search for. Also easy to find on google. Do you have good DVB reception? This is a good link for UK digital TV - what cable to use from the aerial etc... http://www.megalithia.com/elect/index.html I currently have usually bad DVB reception (upgrading the aerial wire next week) - and Mythbackend sometimes has problems 'cos it can't sync. It's also impossible to say don't record on this input so as soon as you get xmltv going it will schedule for it and you'll have to delete shows by hand. David Thanks David. I'll have a search about in the archives. I've been reading plenty of stuff on the web and I know a fair bit more about DVB today than I did yesterday! I had a look at the megalithia site and I have good line of site to Billsdale (no obstructions) and I'm 21 miles away. Since I already have a good loft space aerial I'm going to borrow a friends set top box over the weekend and see what kind of reception I get from it. If it's not great I'll have to have an outdoor aerial fitted. With regard to Myth choosing the second tuner, I had assumed that it would use the first input (my 250) unless there was a conflict and then try to resolve it using the new input (Nova-T) is this the case ? Cheers Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card
On 18/01/06, Paul Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With regard to Myth choosing the second tuner, I had assumed that it would use the first input (my 250) unless there was a conflict and then try to resolve it using the new input (Nova-T) is this the case ? You can change the priority of inputs/channels after you have installed the system, however card installation order will determine priority if you don't change anything. As Chris has written, I'd always recommend using the DVB card as much as possible as the chance of 'accidents' with a Sky/ntl box feed is high (I've had the guide present/channel flipping in recordings too!) Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card
On Tue, January 17, 2006 12:36, Paul Barker said: Hi All Well my myth setup has been working great for over a year now so I thought it's about time I broke it! I'd like to add a second capture card to the system. Currently here's what I have: Athlon XP 2000 512Mb Ram 1 X 160Gb Seagate Baracuda 7200RPM 2Mb cache dedicated capture / buffer device. Fedora 3 (going to 4 when 5 releases) PVR-250 capturing over SVID from SKY reciever Sorry - should have added that this is my BE only - I have remote front ends. Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card
I have a similar setup. a celery 2.4, with a 120gb drive just for the recordings, using a pvr250 to capture from sky. I added a second card, a win tv nova-t dvb card, and unless I'm ripping a dvd at the same time, it happily records 2 programs and watches one at the same time. This is with a backend/frontend on the same system. If you're thinking of going freeview, I would make the move to FC4 now, as my nova-t worked out of the box on FC4, but needed much patching on FC3 On 17/01/06, Paul Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, January 17, 2006 12:36, Paul Barker said: Hi All Well my myth setup has been working great for over a year now so I thought it's about time I broke it! I'd like to add a second capture card to the system. Currently here's what I have: Athlon XP 2000 512Mb Ram 1 X 160Gb Seagate Baracuda 7200RPM 2Mb cache dedicated capture / buffer device. Fedora 3 (going to 4 when 5 releases) PVR-250 capturing over SVID from SKY reciever Sorry - should have added that this is my BE only - I have remote front ends. Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card
On 17/01/06, Paul Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All Well my myth setup has been working great for over a year now so I thought it's about time I broke it! I'd like to add a second capture card to the system. Currently here's what I have: Athlon XP 2000 512Mb Ram 1 X 160Gb Seagate Baracuda 7200RPM 2Mb cache dedicated capture / buffer device. Fedora 3 (going to 4 when 5 releases) PVR-250 capturing over SVID from SKY reciever I'd like to add a DVB-T card to the above, so I need advice on a few items: 1) Card recommendations. Something that will work well with the 250 and is reliable. I use both Hauppauge Nova-T and V-Stream DVB Xpert cards with PVR-x50 cards with no problems (once you've got dvb and ivtv working together) 2) Disk bandwith. Can I get away with one drive if I wanted to record 2 programs and watch a recorded show at the same time ? (This would be pretty unusual but ...) I've got a Celeron 2.4 MBE and can easily manage this, even on a Celeron 1.3 SBE. Disk usage for UK DVB/PVR recordings is not high (~1MiB/s per recording). When HD arrives this will change though. 3) Good general resources for DVB under Linux since I know pretty much nothing about DVB. http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html http://mythtv.info/ (and wikipedia and Google) I have another spare Baracuda so I could stripe the capture device but I'm trying to have the minimum number of drives in the server to keep heat / power consumption down. No need to IME. You may want to create an LVM though so you can expand your recording capacity as and when necessary. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card
Chris Hembrow wrote: I have a similar setup. a celery 2.4, with a 120gb drive just for the recordings, using a pvr250 to capture from sky. I added a second card, a win tv nova-t dvb card, and unless I'm ripping a dvd at the same time, it happily records 2 programs and watches one at the same time. This is with a backend/frontend on the same system. If you're thinking of going freeview, I would make the move to FC4 now, as my nova-t worked out of the box on FC4, but needed much patching on FC3 Excellent, thanks for the advice. I've been looking at the Nova-T cards today. With the above in mind I think I'll schedule an FC4 upgrade in the next couple of weeks. I already upgraded from FC2 to 3 in the middle of last year when FC2 went legacy so it shouldn't be a big hardship. Is there any additional information I need to know to get the Nova-T going or is it just a case of the right modules ? Cheers Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card
On 17/01/06, Paul Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent, thanks for the advice. I've been looking at the Nova-T cards today. With the above in mind I think I'll schedule an FC4 upgrade in the next couple of weeks. I already upgraded from FC2 to 3 in the middle of last year when FC2 went legacy so it shouldn't be a big hardship. Is there any additional information I need to know to get the Nova-T going or is it just a case of the right modules ? The cx88-dvb modules are in the FC4 kernel, so the card should work out of the box (assuming it's a newer 90002 Nova-T). I'd recommend using atrpms to get around the ivtv drivers clashing with the kernel DVB drivers as the ivtv drivers are renamed in the atrpms version to specifically avoid this. udev rules might need to be edited to ensure the DVB devices are created with the correct permissions, but apart from that, you shouldn't expect any biggies. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card
Nick wrote: On 17/01/06, Paul Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cx88-dvb modules are in the FC4 kernel, so the card should work out of the box (assuming it's a newer 90002 Nova-T). I'd recommend using atrpms to get around the ivtv drivers clashing with the kernel DVB drivers as the ivtv drivers are renamed in the atrpms version to specifically avoid this. udev rules might need to be edited to ensure the DVB devices are created with the correct permissions, but apart from that, you shouldn't expect any biggies. Great stuff - I already use atrpms for my Myth builds. Right then, time to wreck ^h^h^h^h^h improve my backend ! Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card
Paul Barker wrote: Excellent, thanks for the advice. I've been looking at the Nova-T cards today. With the above in mind I think I'll schedule an FC4 upgrade in the next couple of weeks. I already upgraded from FC2 to 3 in the middle of last year when FC2 went legacy so it shouldn't be a big hardship. Is there any additional information I need to know to get the Nova-T going or is it just a case of the right modules ? Cheers Paul There was some good advice on Nova-Ts in the archives - fairly easy to search for. Also easy to find on google. Do you have good DVB reception? This is a good link for UK digital TV - what cable to use from the aerial etc... http://www.megalithia.com/elect/index.html I currently have usually bad DVB reception (upgrading the aerial wire next week) - and Mythbackend sometimes has problems 'cos it can't sync. It's also impossible to say don't record on this input so as soon as you get xmltv going it will schedule for it and you'll have to delete shows by hand. David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
