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Re: [LUG] Freeview cards & Linux

 

On 07/07/06, Paul Weaver <iso@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 07:49:20PM +0100, James Fidell wrote:
> Fortunately we now have a shiny new high-gain aerial.  Unfortunately I
> have to run 40m of aerial cable to get it to the PC, through a wall at
> least two feet thick, so it hasn't happened yet.

40m of cable, even CT100, ain't going to do our signal strength much
good. You might need a masthead booster.

> I've been running mythtv since v0.7 , when it was a bit of a pig to get
> running.  These days (v0.18.1 -- I've got not around to upgrading to
> v0.19 yet) it seems to work for most people without too much pain.  The
> VCR isn't quite unused these days (we still have some stuff on tape that
> I haven't digitised yet), but I've not recorded anything on tape in well
> over a year.  Certainly it has its faults (the music player bit has a
> truly awful user interface), but generally I'm really pleased with it.

Look out for 0.19. The DVB is shot to hell on it, you need a SVN version or  to wait for 0.19.1

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Ben Goodger
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