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On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:03:36PM +0100, Ben Goodger wrote: > >>> Hi folks, > >>> > >>> I'm in the process of setting up a new Freeview on my soon to be MythTV > >>> box and I'm having a bit of a problem. > >>> > >>> The card I have bought is a K-World DVB-T 100 PCI card which I got > >>> earlier from SVP. > >>> > >>> The card is detected as a KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T. From what I can > >>> tell, it is a generic card with a Connexant chipset. > >>> > >> > >> Does it handle audio on board. I am looking for some cards I can use > >> in quantity with VLC. > >> > >Yes it does, it captures the stream into MPEG-2 format. I didn't > >however get the card to tune into anything other than the BBC muxes > >(i.e. BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, CBeebies etc). Not sure if thats down to the > >ariel we have installed on the roof. > > > No, that's to do with the fact that the BBC channels are free-to-air and > not merely free-to-view; you need to configure it for other channels, try > xmltv? BBC broadcast on 2 of the 6 muxes, however many more of the channels on DTT are free to air, including ITV. It sounds like an ariel issue to me, unless you have to specify whcih UHF channels to listen on. Your DTT card should pick up every channel, even the scrambled ones like UK Gold. -- 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