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Re: [LUG] Freeview cards & Linux

 

James Fidell wrote:
> Rob Beard wrote:
>
>   
>> I luckily got MythTV working although due to the poor signal I couldn't 
>> tune much in.  My own plans for a MythTV box are on hold at the moment.  
>> I haven't got a small enough case and I think the chosen board (Athlon 
>> XP 2000 with 512MB memory) might have been a bit too slow too.
>>     
>
> Depends on the rest of the hardware, really.  With an analogue TV
> card, that should be enough for recording one channel, but may be a bit
> lacking if you're trying to record two or watch one and record another.
> OTOH, if you have a TV card that provides a digital signal directly,
> you need far less processing power.
>
> James.
>
>   
if you have a really bad signal you could think about a skystar 
satellite card along with a dish pointed towards astra. the card is 
around £60 and the drivers are in the kernel. kaffeine works fine for 
watching it with very minimal setup. you get all the free to air 
channels and those on the satellite next door, eurobird? as astra is 28e 
and the other one is 26 or 24 or something.

Simon

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