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Re: [LUG] DVB-T scan file for uk-StocklandHill

 

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 14:20 +0000, Steven CÃtà wrote:
>         By the way, I don't suppose you've tried Kaffeine on Ubuntu
>         9.10 with a DVB-T card have you?
>         
>         I'm finding that it can't find a suitable 'demuxer' when I
>         select a channel.  I'm not sure if it's down to missing codecs
>         or what (I have w32codecs installed but not any of the
>         gstreamer codecs or plugins).
> 
> I can't say that I have. At a guess though, I'd assume that you do
> need the gstreamer plugins. I'm pretty sure to view Freeview you don't
> need the win32 codecs (hard to say for sure since I did load them)
> since the stream is just a mpeg2 stream. Having said that, isn't there
> supposed to be a plugin in PackageKit in 9.10 that will automatically
> attempt to install missing plugins as they're required?
> 
> Once I have the main box attached to the tv pretty stable, I'm going
> to start working on getting the various PC's scattered around the
> house capable to of viewing recorded programs. So if I run into more
> problems I'll be sure to report them back here in case anyone else
> retraces my steps.

I have satellite with kaffeine. I think the codec I needed to make it
watchable was ffmpeg.

Simon


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