R: [Freevo-users] Freevo and DVB

[Cristiano]

Dale,   > I am looking for some addons or plugins for adding DVB functionalities to  > Freevo,  > Is this possible? Does anyone has some suggestion?  > Could a DVBstream plugin be a solution?  >    > It is already there. You should (or, this is what I did):  >   > a) install DVB card, load modules etc.  > b) create your chanels.conf file (by using dvbscan) and store in ~/.tzap and ~/.mplayer dirs (what I did during testing is created    > channels.conf  in home dir and did just symlinks to this file)  > c) make sure it works :) (i.e. tzap -r + mplayer -v /dev/dvb/adapterX/dvr0 (or /dev/videoX/???? if your card is supported by video4linux). Also,    > try "mplayer dvb://<channel_name>"  > d) configure your local_conf.py:  > d1) to match channels in TV_CHANNELS variable  > d2) to setup XMLTV_GRABBER variable  > d3) this might be only me but I needed to add "VIDEO_GROUPS[0].group_type = 'dvb'" line to the file  > d4) you might take a look at your VCR_CMD to tweak parameters for mencoder, if you wish  > e) make a cron job to download TV guide (I do this every mroning around 5, I guess)  >   > Well, this should do it. I hope I did not forget anything important, HTH.    thanks for your suggestion, i tried it and it seems to work, have you any idea for streaming DVB channels to a client freevo machine without a DVB card installed? I'd like to setup a client server freevo architecture   thanks     Cristiano