Thanks for this - like a few other newbies to DVB I have been struggling to get just a simple picture up on my box (now with the Premium TT-DVB-S and the Nebula DVB-T card installed - see other posts for the alleged electrocution of the Premium TT-DVB-T card!).
I have XINE installed, and the command xine dvb://1 gets a channel displayed (it chose BBC news 24 - not at all sure I know why). I have a picture, well to be truthful, I have a frame. Hey - it's a start! But TV this is not. And CPU usages is out of this world, and this is on a 2.6 Ghz Pentium Pro. I cant interrupt the channel. ... Hey we just had a screen refresh (after 5 minutes!). What am I doing wrong? Adrian Challinor > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Andrew G. Wilson > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 10:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Dick Middleton > Subject: [linux-dvb] xine vs mythtv > > I've got the same setup here, and I've been fighting with mythtv for a > while. I > never tried xine before Dick suggested it - it's way more solid, doesn't > fall > over on bad data like myth does, and from its CPU usage, it seems to be > using > the HW mpeg decoder on EPIA - so I'm quite tempted to use it. > > But.. as xine is primarily a video player rather than a TV app, it's not > obvious > how to change channels! > > Can anyone who's using xine spend 5 minutes explaining how to set it up to > do > channel changing, volume adjustment, pause/ff/rew, and aspect changing? I > spend > ages looking at the docs, and you've got to trawl through mountains of it > just > to find out that what you want isn't documented... > > Alternatively, can anyone explain how to use the xine display engine > within > freevo or mythtv (if that's possible) > > cheers > Andrew > > > Dick Middleton wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Ok, I think that I now have kernel 2.6.2 installed ok and the drivers > >> dvb-core.o, bttv.o, bt878.o, dvb-bt8xx.o and sp887x.o. What else do I > >> need to do to actually watch dvb within linux? Do I need DVBtune or > >> DVBstream, or can I get away with just using scan? How do I use a > >> viewer with the drivers, does this have to do with dvr0? > > > > > > The best way is with Xine. You can do xine dvb://1 where the number > > references the line in channels.conf. > > > > You need a channels.conf in ~/.xine. You can use scan to create it. > > > > Alternatively you can use tzap to select a channel and in another xterm > > cat /dev/dvb/adaptor0/dvr0 to a file or redirect it to mplayer. In this > > case the channels.conf needs to be in ~/.tzap. I use symbolic link so > > there's only one channels.conf. > > > > Dick > > > > > -- > Info: > To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux- > dvb" as subject. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
