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Re: [LUG] OTT PCI DVB-T freeview card

 

i have been reading and researching dreambox solution , they seem
pretty good and are linux based. They not being dev anymore the
company is focusing on a new project  "Project Goliath" etc etc can
find it out easy enough on fleabay and google.


On 5 July 2015 at 20:59, Daniel Robinson <manipula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Boxie box...  Just copy that!
>
> On 5 Jul 2015 12:46 pm, "Simon Avery" <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 4 July 2015 at 19:44, bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Damn it, more MythTV! DKMS'ing modules is like clockwork for me, but I
>>> can't drop something on my end users that requires manual intervention
>>> like that... This is exactly why MythTV is effectively unusable for
>>> anyone except hackers or Linux sysadmins. "End users" in this case is
>>> elderly family members that decidedly don't want complicated crap like
>>> that to deal with, and I can't SSH into their box every day just to make
>>> sure something isn't broken. Again.
>>
>>
>> Mythtv is not simple software to set up. Never has been, likely never will
>> be.
>>
>> I've found their devs to be /extremely/ closed-minded, more so than any
>> other project I've worked with. When I asked how to rename the files to be
>> human friendly, the response was "Don't rename them, or you won't be able to
>> play back". When I explained that I didn't want to play back through the
>> myth interface, rather playing the mpgs directly from the FS, I actually got
>> abuse back.
>>
>> So I looked at the mysql database, wrote some perl, and my script has been
>> happily doing just that for half a decade.
>>
>> Anyway, despite that it's good software without equal. But it's not for
>> end users. It's for geeks who are enjoy spending time faffing around getting
>> it working.
>>
>> My freesat solution is:
>>
>> A 120cm dish that I bought very cheaply to mess around with foreign TV
>> reception. When I grew bored of that, it stayed in a shed until digital
>> switchover made DVB-T / Freeview completely unusable. Seriously, Freeview
>> worked fine before DSO, then after no matter how much faffing, alignment and
>> new aerials, remained stubbornly crap.
>>
>> So I dug the dish out of the shed, bought a quad LNB off ebay for a few
>> quid. Two lines from that go to my server in the loft and record anything on
>> freesat that I want (or myth identifies from keywords).
>>
>> Two more [1] lines from that quad go into the living room and into the
>> back of a Humax freesat box with a 500gb hdd. It's a beautifully designed
>> and very reliable unit with a nice interface. My wife can drive it better
>> than I can. Full smooth seek, rewind, live pause, scheduling - all the stuff
>> that Sky+ gives at a price, this thing does for freesat. It's very nice and
>> would be the unit I recommend to your relatives as a "Install and forget"
>> freesat solution.
>>
>>
>> [1] - So you can watch one thing and record another. Or record two things.
>>
>>
>>
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