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Re: [LUG] Freeview cards & Linux

 

Ben Goodger wrote:
> On 06/07/06, *Rob Beard* <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Mark Evans wrote:
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>     > Rob Beard wrote:
>     >
>     >> Hi folks,
>     >>
>     >> 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.
>     >>
>     >> 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.
>     >
>     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?
>
I was under the impression that all the channels on Freeview were 
un-encrypted and Free-to-air (other than Top up TV of course).

The problem was, it wouldn't even detect the other muxes, it couldn't 
pickup a signal.  Same thing happened in Windows.

Rob


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