On Thursday 31 March 2005 01:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: > Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under > mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in > wrong place?). > There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. > > Does anyone know anything about this? > > (I did a search for "TV Card" on the mandrake hardware compatibility > list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be > well supported...) > > Hugh > ------ > The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul > up there's no law against wacking them around a little. - Porterfield
Which Digital TV card are you asking about? Mandrake 10.1 will work "out of the box" with some cards (e.g. Avermedia DVB), but will require compiling of new modules with others (e.g. new style Hauppauge Nova-T) The situation is complicated by manufacturers changing the chip sets of their cards without changing model names. Mandrake 10.2 will support many more cards without having to recompile the kernel. Personally I would recommend a card based on a late model chip set such as the Connexant cx88 chipset. The Hauppauge Nova-T DVB card works better for me than the Avermedia card did. (better signal quality) What software do you want to use with the card? I can heartily recommend MythTV. It is absolutely fabulous. There are RPMs for it on plf, but they are out of date and not compiled for digital TV (DVB) cards. I can supply you with a set of RPMs of the latest version compiled for Mdk 10.1. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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