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On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 21:25 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > This might be of some use to some of you out there who are looking for > USB Freeview sticks. > > In the past, anyone who had a Hauppage WinTV HVR-900 USB Freeview stick > or a Pinnacle PCTV330e USB stick found that the device was supported > well on Windows but would only appear as an analogue capture device on > Linux. This was really annoying considering these particular sticks > aren't cheap (about Â40 compared to about Â15 for a cheapo stick). > > There was a driver written for an old kernel which became unsupported > and out of date, until now. A guy called Devin Heitmueller has ported > the driver, fixed some bugs and got it working. It also just happens > that he was kind enough to send me an e-mail off list (I posted about > the stick on the Linux-DVB mailing list) with a link to a blog about the > driver. > > It's not too bad to install, especially for someone confident enough to > compile from source, instructions are included on the blog. It sounds > like the driver will eventually be integrated into the kernel so that in > future distros, it'll be a case of plugging the stick in and tuning it > in using <insert favourite DVB app here>. > > Anyway, the site is here: http://www.kernellabs.com/blog/?p=1397 > > If like me too, you try and get Kaffeine to view the channels and you > get an error message about not having a suitable demuxer, try installing > libxine1-all-plugins (on Ubuntu and I presume Debian too?). Under > Fedora Core (10 at least) it appears you need the > xine-lib-extras-freeworld package installed. > > Hope this helps someone out there. > > I'm really chuffed with this, I can NOW get the BBC muxes again, so with > this stick I can get everything that I can receive on my TV (whereas > with my K-World DVB-T PCI card I can't get the BBC Muxes). > > Now does anyone know how I can convert the list of channels from > Kaffeine into something mplayer can use? > > Rob > > w_scan DVB-T for Czap/Tzap/Xine (United Kingdom) root@ubuntu:~# w_scan -ft -c GB -X >> channels.conf see the w_scan page for a list of different output formats I just got a USB stick from Novatech Â13 (own brand) which also works fine now on the BBC mux's using Mint and kaffeine. > Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- 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