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Re: [LUG] Freeview cards & Linux

 

On 06/07/06, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mark Evans wrote:
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> Rob Beard wrote:
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>> Hi folks,
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>> I'm in the process of setting up a new Freeview on my soon to be MythTV
>> box and I'm having a bit of a problem.
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>> The card I have bought is a K-World DVB-T 100 PCI card which I got
>> earlier from SVP.
>>
>> The card is detected as a KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T.  From what I can
>> tell, it is a generic card with a Connexant chipset.
>>
>
> Does it handle audio on board. I am looking for some cards I can use
> in quantity with VLC.
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Yes it does, it captures the stream into MPEG-2 format.  I didn't
however get the card to tune into anything other than the BBC muxes
(i.e. BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, CBeebies etc).  Not sure if thats down to the
ariel we have installed on the roof.

No, that's to do with the fact that the BBC channels are free-to-air and not  merely free-to-view; you need to configure it for other channels, try xmltv?

Rob



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