[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Buy a set top box and forgot about the tinkering side of things... my
topfield works a treat..
Not so great if you either:
a) want to tinker
b) don't have a TV
A set top box is not a recorder; Hard Disk recorders are around $1000.
The DVICO fusion + mythtv works well. Setup is a bit of a bitch.
See http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~chrisp/DVICO-Linux/
Setup is now made extremely easy by C Pascoe the device driver developer. BTW, C Pascoe is extremely helpful with info on this device driver, a clear indication of professional attitude.
He responds promptly to all emails and I'm an ardent advocate of his.
Once the source file: DVB-cjp-20041127.tar.gz is downloaded the procedure is mechanical as follows:
1. Untar the downloaded file in a directory, say,
/usr/src/redhat/dvd.
This is what I have after untarring: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dvb]# ls -la total 756 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 14 11:00 . drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Feb 13 08:03 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 12345 users 2788 Feb 14 10:56 DVB-Build.sh -rw-rw-r-- 1 oscarp oscarp 732602 Feb 10 14:59 DVB-cjp-20041127.tar.gz -rwxr-x--- 1 12345 users 2306 Feb 14 11:00 DVB-Init.sh drwxr-xr-x 6 12345 users 4096 Dec 5 00:09 dvb-kernel drwxr-xr-x 6 12345 users 12288 Feb 14 10:58 video4linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] dvb]#
2. With vi, edit 'DVB-Build.sh' and change the line: BUILDDIR=/build to where I untarred the source file, BUILDDIR=/usr/src/redhat/dvb
3. Run 'DVB-Build.sh remove-symbols', 'DVB-Build.sh clean', and then 'DVB-Build.sh'.
These will fix the VERSION No conflicts, clean-up the binaries, and recompile the drivers.
4. Finally, run 'DVB-Init.sh start'. This will load device drivers.
5. My dmesg confirms the loaded drivers and shows,
............snipped................................
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
video_buf_dvb: no version for "dvb_dmxdev_init" found: kernel tainted.
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
cx88[0]: subsystem: 18ac:db00, board: DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T1 [card=15,autodetected]
cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:02:01.0, rev: 5, irq: 9, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf2000000
cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.2[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:02:01.2, rev: 5, irq: 9, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf3000000
cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]).
DVB: registering frontend 0 (DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T1)...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dvb]#
6. I have tested and replicated the above procedure on Fedora Core 2 and Core 3
a number of times. The end-result is the same everytime.
7.The next step is install MythTV by following the HOWTO from http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php. This is mostly mechanical too.
8. With all the above efforts my MythTVChannel does not work because 'tv_grab_au' is not working. This is up until December, 2004.
9. I'll get back to it when time permits.
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