On Thursday 31 March 2005 09:36, Hugh Dixon wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 5:48 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner > > > > 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
> > > > Which Digital TV card are you asking about? > > I don't know - something that is easy to set up with Mandrake! > > > 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 currently use KDETV with an analog card. I did a 'click and install' > of Myth TV, and it didn't run. > I put it on my list of things to look at later - the list that gets put > in a corner and never acted on. > This may be a good reason to look at Myth again, in which case I would > be most grateful for your rpms. > > > 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 There are RPMs for it on plf, but they are out of date and 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 > > I have put my mythtv RPMS in the download area of my web site. You do not need all the packages. The core is libmyth0, mythtv-frontend, mythtv-backend, mythtv-themes, and mythtvsetup. The remaining packages are optional plugins. They are compiled to support DVB digital cards, and the hardware MPEG2 decoder of Via M10k motherboards, but they should work with analogue cards, and other motherboards also. If your analogue card is currently working with KDETV then myth should find it too. To use myth first install MySQL and then run 'mythtvsetup' to detect and setup your TV card and initialise the MySQL database. Then 'service mythbackend start' will start the myth backend server. You can then start the front end with 'mythfrontend' There is excellent documentation on myth at http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInstall have fun derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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