RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
-Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 5:48 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner On Thursday 31 March 2005 01:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh -- The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. - Porterfield Which Digital TV card are you asking about? I don't know - something that is easy to set up with Mandrake! Mandrake 10.1 will work out of the box with some cards (e.g. Avermedia DVB), but will require compiling of new modules with others (e.g. new style Hauppauge Nova-T) The situation is complicated by manufacturers changing the chip sets of their cards without changing model names. Mandrake 10.2 will support many more cards without having to recompile the kernel. Personally I would recommend a card based on a late model chip set such as the Connexant cx88 chipset. The Hauppauge Nova-T DVB card works better for me than the Avermedia card did. (better signal quality) What software do you want to use with the card? I currently use KDETV with an analog card. I did a 'click and install' of Myth TV, and it didn't run. I put it on my list of things to look at later - the list that gets put in a corner and never acted on. This may be a good reason to look at Myth again, in which case I would be most grateful for your rpms. I can heartily recommend MythTV. It is absolutely fabulous. There are RPMs for it on plf, but they are out of date and not compiled for digital TV (DVB) cards. I can supply you with a set of RPMs of the latest version compiled for Mdk 10.1. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 09:36, Hugh Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 5:48 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner On Thursday 31 March 2005 01:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh Which Digital TV card are you asking about? I don't know - something that is easy to set up with Mandrake! Mandrake 10.1 will work out of the box with some cards (e.g. Avermedia DVB), but will require compiling of new modules with others (e.g. new style Hauppauge Nova-T) The situation is complicated by manufacturers changing the chip sets of their cards without changing model names. Mandrake 10.2 will support many more cards without having to recompile the kernel. Personally I would recommend a card based on a late model chip set such as the Connexant cx88 chipset. The Hauppauge Nova-T DVB card works better for me than the Avermedia card did. (better signal quality) What software do you want to use with the card? I currently use KDETV with an analog card. I did a 'click and install' of Myth TV, and it didn't run. I put it on my list of things to look at later - the list that gets put in a corner and never acted on. This may be a good reason to look at Myth again, in which case I would be most grateful for your rpms. I can heartily recommend MythTV. It is absolutely fabulous. There are RPMs for it on plf, but they are out of date and not compiled for digital TV (DVB) cards. I can supply you with a set of RPMs of the latest version compiled for Mdk 10.1. derek I have put my mythtv RPMS in the download area of my web site. You do not need all the packages. The core is libmyth0, mythtv-frontend, mythtv-backend, mythtv-themes, and mythtvsetup. The remaining packages are optional plugins. They are compiled to support DVB digital cards, and the hardware MPEG2 decoder of Via M10k motherboards, but they should work with analogue cards, and other motherboards also. If your analogue card is currently working with KDETV then myth should find it too. To use myth first install MySQL and then run 'mythtvsetup' to detect and setup your TV card and initialise the MySQL database. Then 'service mythbackend start' will start the myth backend server. You can then start the front end with 'mythfrontend' There is excellent documentation on myth at http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInstall have fun derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 02:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14990 (cooker) might be interesting. Note the reference to the kernel-multimedia. Good luck! -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:09, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2005 02:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14990 (cooker) might be interesting. Note the reference to the kernel-multimedia. Good luck! -Frans That is very interesting... I just checked with the kernel-2.6.11-6mdk kernel in current cooker and it *does not* include the cx88-dvb driver I need for my Hauppauge Nova-T card, but the kernel-multimedia-2.6.10-3mm kernel in cooker contrib *does* derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
Thank you all. I am having a look at MythTV at the moment, and have got myself into sql problems, and have run out of time to look at it. I will pursue this further over the weekend, Thanks again, Hugh winmail.dat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 12:51 am, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners ___ ~ maybe, someone on one of these Lists, could guide you:- .. From: linuxtv-listserver [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists Ecartis lists available on this machine: linuxtv-softmpeg Maintainer linuxtv-softmpeg linux-dvb-maintainer Maintainer list for DirectFB. directfb-cvs DirectFB CVS commit log messages directfb-dev DirectFB offers maximum hardware accelerated performance at a minimum of resource usage and overhead. Users list. directfb-users DirectFB offers maximum hardware accelerated performance at a minimum of resource usage and overhead. Users list. linux-dvb About IP over satellite on Linux boxes, digital VCR, Electronic Program Guide linux-dvd About DVD for Linux, our DVD API, the Margi Driver linuxtv-cvs DirectFB offers maximum hardware accelerated performance at a minimum of resource usage and overhead. Users list. mpeg2 MPEG2 encoder mailing list vdr About IP over satellite on Linux boxes, digital VCR, Electronic Program Guide .. best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
-Original Message- From: riccardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 4:16 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner On Thursday 31 March 2005 12:51 am, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners ___ ~ maybe, someone on one of these Lists, could guide you:- .. Thanks, I have been around a few lists and things (and will add those to my sources), but I am/was after any Mandrake specific information. Looks like I have the potential to be a guinea pig! Hugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 01:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh -- The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. - Porterfield Which Digital TV card are you asking about? Mandrake 10.1 will work out of the box with some cards (e.g. Avermedia DVB), but will require compiling of new modules with others (e.g. new style Hauppauge Nova-T) The situation is complicated by manufacturers changing the chip sets of their cards without changing model names. Mandrake 10.2 will support many more cards without having to recompile the kernel. Personally I would recommend a card based on a late model chip set such as the Connexant cx88 chipset. The Hauppauge Nova-T DVB card works better for me than the Avermedia card did. (better signal quality) What software do you want to use with the card? I can heartily recommend MythTV. It is absolutely fabulous. There are RPMs for it on plf, but they are out of date and not compiled for digital TV (DVB) cards. I can supply you with a set of RPMs of the latest version compiled for Mdk 10.1. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh -- The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. - Porterfield Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
