>===== Original Message From "Edward Wildgoose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >> > You're on the right track :) The full-feature (onboard MPEG decoder) do >> > provide a V4L /dev/video0 interface, whilst the Nova-T and other budget >> > cards do not (they are just tuners with a COFDM decoder and spew out a >> > raw MPEG Transport Stream). >> > >> You can also use the Nova-t with a software decoder such as mplayer. I had >it >> running for several months like this with excellent results. >> Record/playback/timeshift are all possible on this setup, but it's not >nearly >> as elegant as vdr. > >So just to be sure about this. If I get the full and extremely expensive >non-budget card (in particular the TT-DVB-T card), then I will get a V4L >interface that I could plug xawtv into without any bother? And presumably >I get another /dev/dsp device to get sound from? Channel changing is also >automatic by the V4L interface? > >My original plan was to setup a box for mythtv and a bt878 tuner for normal >terestrial TV. However, digital tv looks like it might provide a higher >quality input than normal analogue TV. Obviously I am wasting CPU power by >decoding and re-encoding the MPEG channel, however, using mythtv offers a >few advantages such as adjustable encoding bit rate, and epg program >information for the future, rather than just now/next. However, mythtv is >v4l only and doesn't take mpeg input directly (shame) > >Obviously I will be setting up vdr as well if I get such a card, and >following both projects, however, the epg is quite important to me and so I >am veering towards myth until I can get this from vdr. (To be honest vdr >may well do everything I want, but it seems to be difficult to evaluate >unless you own a DVB card, I can't get it to fire up and run without one... >There are a limited number of screen shots as well. The point is that I am >not in any way against using vdr, its just that I don't know much about it. >Myth I know and is working for me very well so I would like to plug a TT DVB >card into it first and work from there) > >Thanks for any further confirmation > >Ed >
I think I am right in saying that currenyly DVB-T in the UK does not broadcast a full EPG and only now/next program information is broadcast. Guy. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
