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Paul Weaver wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:03:36PM +0100, Ben Goodger 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? >> > > BBC broadcast on 2 of the 6 muxes, however many more of the channels on DTT > are free to air, including ITV. It sounds like an ariel issue to me, > unless you have to specify whcih UHF channels to listen on. > > Your DTT card should pick up every channel, even the scrambled ones like > UK Gold. > Thats what I thought. It works ok with out Freeview box although we can't get Channel 5. The ariel is not a proper digital ariel so I guess that doesn't help. When I get some spare funds together I'm going to invest in a proper Freeview ariel and digital satellite coax cable. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html