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
