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Hi, |
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:37:37 +0300 |
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Catalin Trifu <catalin@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> I would like to get a TV Tunner installed on my gentoo linux box. |
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> Could you please share some of your experience with setting up |
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> a TV Tunner and which cards/software you used. |
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I'm currently running a DVB setup with a modified (stripped down to run |
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completely out of RAM-Disk) gentoo. I'm not sure if you had DVB in |
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mind, though. I can definitely recommend this in combination with VDR |
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(others prefer MythTV, which is probably better for analogue TV) - it |
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currently provides me a TV set top box on a Pentium 200 MMX. It's a |
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full featured card, i.e. the hardware decodes the MPEG2 video and audio |
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streams. You can use a so called »budget card« that doesn't have this |
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decoder (and no TV out) and use your CPU for decoding (not an option |
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for the Pentium 200, which I like for its quietness). You should have |
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at least ~400 MHz and there won't be much left of your CPU cycles when |
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watching TV with this. With modern CPUs you don't have to care that |
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much. The standard linux kernel brings all needed DVB drivers for most |
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cards. |
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For VDR, there are plugins that allow streaming over some network (from |
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my experiences, >10MBit is needed). For me, that means I can watch TV |
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on my work computer, too, streamed from my VDR set top box. |
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So my suggestion is clearly DVB (if you're from Germany, too: probably |
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only useful for DVB-T and DVB-S, due to limited channels for most DVB-C |
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networks) and VDR. |
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If you rely on analogue TV, I don't have any experience to share :-( |
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-hwh |
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