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On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 11:23 +0100, Simon Waters wrote: > 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). That's not bad then, they were still a bit pricey when I was looking. > No one seems to mention teletext or other funky features of terrestrial > digital, does it all "just work"? And the DVB radio? I can't say I've tried digital teletext on it, mainly because you get a machine with internet access that maintains its own 14 day EPG database anyway. I did try DVB radio - just pointing xine at 'DVB://BBC R4' etc but it didn't work and I never investigated why. > 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. If Fedora of any version is a consideration, the ATrpms third party repository maintain MythTV rpms for Fedora (http://atrpms.net/), which make life a lot easier! > 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. I think suck-it-and-see before laying out on lots of new hardware is a good approach. If ~700Mhz is correct I'd expect my 1GHz machine to get pretty laggy whilst encoding, but it doesn't seem to (even while running Gnome at the same time). My gnome taskbar system resource thing would only imply that 25% of the CPU is being used at that time. > 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. I have an ATI card lying around that's TV out, but I only managed to get the console on the TV (not much good for video, unless you fancy watching Top Gear with aalib!) before going with the hardware 'no need for drivers' option. -- 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