I've had this up and running for a while now, with generally good results. My setup is:
Old HP Vectra VL400 (Pentium 3 733Mhz, built like a tank, very quiet) Ubuntu "Edgy" Server Slimserver 6.5.1 Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T Icecast DVBShout Things you may want to think about are that: a) DVBShout will only stream stations within a SINGLE multiplex - so on DVB-T (Freeview) you have to choose a subset of BBC stations if that's what you're looking for. If the stations you're looking for are all on the same multiplex then you're fine, and channel changing is almost instantaneous. If you want the full range of BBC stations then an alternative (not tried..) would be to use a Nova-S card and satellite dish, where all are broadcast on the same multiplex. b) The current release version of DVBShout (0.2) doesn't cope very well with any signal dropouts or blips. If you pull the latest SVN source and compile then it is much more forgiving and (my experience) totally stable. c) The Squeezebox doesn't support multicast, so you need to use DVBShout in conjunction with Icecast to get a useable stream. d) If you are looking for a wider range of UK stations then the other alternative is to find an old Wavefinder on eBay and use (on Windows only) with DABBar. This combination will happily change between channels across multiplexes. The disadvantage is that the DAB bitrates are lower than DVB-S or DVB-T and the hardware can be more tempramental. However, DVB-S DVB-T or DAB will all sound MUCH better than the low bitrate Real Audio or Windows Media BBC Internet streams! I won't pretend that the whole DVBShout setup was completely straightforward to install, but it was my first experience of Linux and quite an interesting challenge. My next thought is to add Streamripper to the mix to record favourite shows in high quality as a complement to AlienBBC / Listen Again. Good luck! Phil -- florca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ florca's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7486 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32749 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
