Linux TV Software

hehe after years of fiddling with linux I don't have the time this year to fiddle with the TV cards, as each year passes I get a little bit closer to getting the same performance on windows.

TV cards are still really poorly support on linux, tis a shame!

I'm just about to order my TM500 reciever so I can get my Sky encrypted channels working in MCe :)
 
TV cards are still really poorly support on linux, tis a shame!

Depends on the TV card, I have two Nova T 500's which means 4 tuners in total, each tuner capable of recording two programs at once (assuming they're on the same multiplex) which means I could theoretically record 8 things at once...or let's be honest here...the other half can! WMC can't do that out of the box and I'm not even sure a 3rd party add on can force it.

If anything falls over on my MythTV box it's almost always my fault...
 
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yep true if only there was more support for them

maybe hauppauge could support linux at one point
then again maybe ms could stop selling software and make it freeware

I'm still going to try 1 or 3
:)
3 looks more likely
 
Depends on the TV card, I have two Nova T 500's which means 4 tuners in total, each tuner capable of recording two programs at once (assuming they're on the same multiplex) which means I could theoretically record 8 things at once...or let's be honest here...the other half can! WMC can't do that out of the box and I'm not even sure a 3rd party add on can force it.

If anything falls over on my MythTV box it's almost always my fault...

I'm not blaming MythTV, I'm blaming the TV card manufacters.
 
Any progress psd99?

I just ordered my linux reciever, gonna try get my Sky encrypted channels working in MCe

negative

really doesn't work wish I could work out a way to get it working

what tuner did you order?
there's one that is mentioned on this thread regularly sounds like it could work straight out of the box
 
I didnt go for a DM500s clone as I didn't want my credit card to get raped by some cowboys.

I just bought of the bay from what seems a good shop seller a TM600, £85 free del. It has the potential to be a PVR recorded as well.

I think I need to install a couple of modules to get it to read my white sky card and it should be ok.

I'll make a post in the linux forums, the reciever is linux and open source after all !
 
TV cards are still really poorly support on linux, tis a shame!

Really? I've been running Mythtv for almost three years now and have just upgraded to version 0.22. I've used a mixture of tuners over the years, currently have a Hauppage Nova-T 500 twin DVB-T PCI card and also a Nova-S DVB-S card. Never really had an issue with drivers and there are a lot of cards supported in the kernel these days without having to download and compile video4linux.

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I've just bought a Technotrend S2-3200 to view CH4 HD with and have also got support working for pay tv via a OK Omnikey USB card reader.

Your card (a HVR-1100?) is basically a HVR-1300 without the MPEG encoder, the HVR-1110 has confusingly got a different chipset, so you need to look at this page - http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1300.

I had a HVR-1300 about two years ago in my Mythtv box and it worked fine for DVB-T, I had to download and compile the v4l source but I think the driver is included in kernel >= 2.6.12.

I had an issue where it would try and load the wrong driver/module, IIRC it was trying to load cx88_blackbird, I remember adding this to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklisted_modules file to prevent it from loading.

If you are still having issues perhaps you could post the output of "lsmod"? also the last few lines of dmesg after a fresh reboot (tv cards are usually initialised at the end of startup so should be close to the end of the dmesg output).

Not sure where the w_scan command is from as it is usually dvbscan or scan, you may also have some files which will help with the scan process under /usr/share/doc/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/examples/scan/dvb-t/

Using a file which matches your location:

scan /usr/share/doc/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/examples/scan/dvb-t/uk-Midhurst > channels.conf

Regards

Dave K.

PS. I would take the signal levels reported with a pinch of salt as they may not be entirely accurate.
 
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