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Alex Charrett wrote: > > I'm doing the DVB-T thing very happily with 2 Terratec Cinergy 1400 > cards under FC4 (which I'm *sure* you won't want to use :) ) and MythTV. Thanks, cheaper than the card I was looking at as well, and available retail in the UK now (it all gets easier with time). I have a Knoppmyth R5C7 CD to have a play with when needed. No one seems to mention teletext or other funky features of terrestrial digital, does it all "just work"? And the DVB radio? FC4 I doubt, I might use FC5 - although to be honest in the distro wars SuSE looks shiniest and best, but that might be because their latest release was only last month so they have the newest of everything. At LRL they were showing compiz (enough to make Apple share holders cry), along with Xen, and some other cool server stuff. My inclination is to use Debian though which is probably what you guessed. However both Redhat, Ubuntu and Novell (at least the SuSE people) do get this free software thing. > I remember reading somewhere you should reckon on ~700MHz for each tuner > card. Hmm, the nice quiet small box that I was hoping to use is looking slightly under powered ?! Guess I'll try it first, and see. > The biggest problem I encountered though was getting TV-out going under > Linux, as support seems to be limited at best. Funnily enough the box I was hoping to use has a TV out on the motherboard, with drivers from an 'Alan Cox' or someone, although I'm not sure I ever tried using it. It also has a built in infrared port which would be dead handy if it has enough oompf. But I'm not sure how much of the on-board cleverness is really supported, as in theory the right combination of software and hardware ought to let me use the on-board Mpeg hardware here I think which ought to save some power requirement. As with so much of this technology the features are in there somewhere if only I can get to use them effectively. Disk space is an issue, at which I can probably only throw money. I have plenty of bays to fill on my other box. -- 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