[gentoo-user] [OT] tv tunner
Hi, I would like to get a TV Tunner installed on my gentoo linux box. Could you please share some of your experience with setting up a TV Tunner and which cards/software you used. Thanks you, Catalin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tv tunner
Hi, On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:37:37 +0300 Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a TV Tunner installed on my gentoo linux box. Could you please share some of your experience with setting up a TV Tunner and which cards/software you used. I'm currently running a DVB setup with a modified (stripped down to run completely out of RAM-Disk) gentoo. I'm not sure if you had DVB in mind, though. I can definitely recommend this in combination with VDR (others prefer MythTV, which is probably better for analogue TV) - it currently provides me a TV set top box on a Pentium 200 MMX. It's a full featured card, i.e. the hardware decodes the MPEG2 video and audio streams. You can use a so called »budget card« that doesn't have this decoder (and no TV out) and use your CPU for decoding (not an option for the Pentium 200, which I like for its quietness). You should have at least ~400 MHz and there won't be much left of your CPU cycles when watching TV with this. With modern CPUs you don't have to care that much. The standard linux kernel brings all needed DVB drivers for most cards. For VDR, there are plugins that allow streaming over some network (from my experiences, 10MBit is needed). For me, that means I can watch TV on my work computer, too, streamed from my VDR set top box. So my suggestion is clearly DVB (if you're from Germany, too: probably only useful for DVB-T and DVB-S, due to limited channels for most DVB-C networks) and VDR. If you rely on analogue TV, I don't have any experience to share :-( -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tv tunner
On 4/19/06, Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to get a TV Tunner installed on my gentoo linux box. Could you please share some of your experience with setting up a TV Tunner and which cards/software you used. I've had good louck with the Hauppauge PCR-150 TV Tuner card - between $60 - $80 (US), has hardware compression, so you don't chew up your CPU cycles - I'm running two of the cards on a Celeron 500 system with no noticable CPU overhead. They are regular analog broadcast input, and they have no TV output (If you need the TV output, I believe you have to go up to the PVR-350, not sure how much it is) - they also come with an IR remote, which is handy if you're doing the watching from the same box that the card is in - not quite as handy in a dedicated recording server such as mine. :) They use the ivtv driver, which is at least in portage, and I *think* that the latest in-kernel drivers contains a recent enough ivtv driver to support the card directly in the kernel, but I'm not positive. I use MythTV (USE=backendonly for my server, USE=frontendonly for all my home clients) for recording and viewing. If you decide to go the PVR-150 / MythTV route, let me know if you want some configuration tips, I can help out. HTH- James Thanks you, Catalin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tv tunner
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 15:37, Catalin Trifu wrote: Hi, I would like to get a TV Tunner installed on my gentoo linux box. Could you please share some of your experience with setting up a TV Tunner and which cards/software you used. xdtv simple, can do everything needed (capturing of pictures in jpg and png format, capturing of films, videotext) and does not have one bazillion of deps like mythtv. Just for watching tv and occasionally capturing something, mythtv is total overkill. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
