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James Fidell wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > >> There's always KnoppMyth for the faint hearted or LinuxMCE (which IIRC >> is based on Kubuntu/MythTV and a couple of other addons). > > Good point. MythDora, too, come to think of it. > >> I had a play >> with MythTV and found it to be really good. Unfortunately my DVB-T card >> would only pickup the BBC Freeview channels whereas I get a perfect >> signal on the Freeview box. I think it might be the card being too >> sensitive. I'll eventually have another go next year when I get a HD TV >> with PC input. > > I think that quite a few DVB-T cards aren't sensitive enough or are too > picky in some other way. Or perhaps STBs are just made to be far more > forgiving of poor signals -- I know it used to be the case that an STB > worked on our old aerial, but the DVB cards I tried were getting 90%+ > bit error rate. > > I shouldn't really be considered a good test case though -- we're 30+ > miles from the transmitter with nothing even approaching what might be > described as "line of sight". > I'm a couple of miles from the Beacon Hill transmitter in Paignton although the channels it said I was picking up were from 'Stockland Hill'. I haven't tried it again, it's on my list of things to do while I'm off (including borrowing a DVB-T USB stick from a friend). >> By the way, what sort of radio stations do you get? Is it the Shoutcast >> stations or BBC and UK local/national commercial radio too? > > "Proper" radio :) I don't listen to the internet-based stations because > I really don't have enough bandwidth. These are all the radio stations > that turn up in the channel scan, I think: > Ahh yeah that can be a problem. I know the GCap Media stations (Gemini FM, Classic FM, etc) only have 32k or 128k WMA streams which when played back on my XBOX sound really bad. For some reason they sound much better through mplayer. > mysql> select channum, name from channel where channum >= 700 order by > channum; > +---------+----------------+ > | channum | name | > +---------+----------------+ > | 700 | BBC Radio 1 | > | 701 | 1Xtra BBC | > | 702 | BBC Radio 2 | > | 703 | BBC Radio 3 | > | 704 | BBC Radio 4 | > | 705 | BBC R5 Live | > | 706 | BBC 5L SportsX | > | 707 | BBC 6 Music | > | 708 | BBC 7 | > | 709 | BBC Asian Net. | > | 710 | BBC World Sv. | > | 711 | The Hits Radio | > | 712 | Smash Hits! | > | 713 | Kiss | > | 714 | heat | > | 715 | Magic | > | 716 | Q | > | 717 | oneword | > | 718 | SMOOTH RADIO | > | 721 | MOJO | > | 722 | Kerrang! | > | 723 | talkSPORT | > | 724 | Clyde 1 | > | 725 | Premier Radio | > | 727 | Virgin Radio | > | 728 | Heart | > +---------+----------------+ > That's pretty good selection. All we need now is cheap DAB/FM PC tuner cards, I'd be happy then. > Being able to record stuff from R4 and R7 so I can listen to it at my > leisure is the dog's danglies. Excluding the likes of "Lunar Jim" and > "Bob the Builder" (not doing this results in being woken up by a > screaming four year-old bouncing on my head -- same as usual, but > earlier) I think I record more radio programmes than television. > Yep, I bet it is great. I must admit when I put in a MythTV box eventually I'm going to replace the kids TV with a 19" monitor attached to their PC so they can watch things like CBBC at their leisure in their bedroom. 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