Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi Barry, Sorry about the delay, I was out of town for a few days. I seem to recall that in Australia, use is made of an MHEG service. I don't know if a regular teletext service is available -- you will see this in the results, when you have a tuner capable of scanning. I look forward to

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi Barry, On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:41:41AM +0100, BOUWSMA Barry wrote: Basically, this all means that your tuner sees something, but it can't quite lock onto it. Right. Am I better getting a new card? I got this a couple of years ago when I was on windows, and never used it, so yeh

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-27 Thread BOUWSMA Barry
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Daniel Dalton wrote: [Now, ideally, a teletext service, being text-based, can be] trivially converted to braille or spoken. I'm not sure about Braille..., what format do they originate in? Is it tv signal, or some kind of text guide or something? The teletext

Unicode Teletext (was: Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card)

2009-01-27 Thread BOUWSMA Barry
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Daniel Dalton wrote: Maybe a full Unicode X font will include such characters and I can simply map them to UTF8, but I'm primarily interested in the text content information on my text console. Here's the pr0n... ???X???X*XX*???*???

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-21 Thread Antti Palosaari
Daniel Dalton wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:46:32AM +0200, Antti Palosaari wrote: Yes, should work out of the box. No need to install any driver, driver is included in your Kernel. /dev/dvb/adapter0/ is created. so does this mean the right modules have been loaded? Yes, drivers and

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-20 Thread Antti Palosaari
Daniel Dalton wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:30:57PM +0200, Antti Palosaari wrote: Daniel Dalton wrote: Could someone please let me know what I have to do to get my msi 5580 usb digital tv tuner working with linux? What drivers do I need? What software, what should I do to test it and is it