Bastian Farkas wrote:
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Hi all!
I am quite satiesfied with my freevo and xbox/debian setup so far -
but I would like to move now to another system and need some advise.
1. what is the best TV Tuner card for freevo? Especially: are digital
tuners supported as well (input: digital cable in germany)
hauppauge pvr cards or similar work quite well. i am using a pvr-250
for some time now and am really happy with it. concerning dvb support
i cannot give much advice, but iirc dischi/rshortt have dvb cards in
their freevo boxes.
Yeah the PVR cards are the best I've tried yet on the analogue side. DVB
is supported and more support is being built directly into freevo 2 for
it. However I believe most people are using DVB-Sat, you might have a
problem with your digital cable if it if encrypted and requires a
viewing card. Have a search through the list archives, there might be
some more useful info there.
2. what is the best way of setting everything up? TV Tuner Card in a
remote server, that runs the whole time (for recording tasks). Or
getting rid of the xbox setup and use a box-pc with the tuner card in
it? But then I need to leave it running, when I want to record
things, right?
You'll definately need it running if you want to record :) there is a
plugin though that will start up your box and shut it down when needed.
You could buy a nice silverstone case, silent psu and quite fans
(expensive though).
get rid of the xbox a build a small and silent mini-itx system. if you
have a tv-card with hardware mp2-encoder (which is highly
recommended), an old p3 system will suffice. p3 cpus are quite
powerfull and can be kept cool without much noise.
3. Is it useful to watch TV only via freevo when considering the
questions above? When I use a remote record server, then I need an
additional TV Tuner Card in the PC, that is used as the freevo
frontend, right? Or can I transport the TV Images via network from
the System with the remote TV Tuner Card to the freevo frontend
System? Is this useful and/or practiable??
freevo does not have streaming support at this time. it could become
available if the timeshifting stuff is done. personally i still use my
tvset for watching live tv, because zapping in freevo is too slow. :)
It is being built directly\into Freevo 2 though....
I'm happy for every input!!
cheers,
Hans
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