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On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 09:53 +0100, Simon Waters wrote: > Anyone using a DVB-T (think freeview) tuner with GNU/Linux care to tell > me what hardware/software (including host PC CPU and spec). > > I'm thinking about doing the "mythical convergence platform" for myself > (too many things under the television, and none of them let us surf or > check email, inspite of 4 remote controls -- one of them might be the > stereos - who knows). > I'm doing the DVB-T thing very happily with 2 Terratec Cinergy 1400 cards under FC4 (which I'm *sure* you won't want to use :) ) and MythTV. I did a fair bit of investigation into the choice of card to get ones that were well supported, but they're not that easy / cheap to get in the UK. In the end I got mine from Germany on eBay. The remote control IR interface on them is supported but you need a pretty recent kernel >2.6.16.14 I think. I've not tried it since last upgrading my kernel. Really helpfully remote controls use a different IR standard than normal IRDA! The box is a P-III 1GHz, 512MB and not enough disk space. As a guide a recording of Dr. Who (45 Mins) took up ~1.7GB of space. Watching a recording and recording at the same time works fine but I've not tried recording and watching live TV at the same time yet (the reason for getting 2 cards!). I remember reading somewhere you should reckon on ~700MHz for each tuner card. The biggest problem I encountered though was getting TV-out going under Linux, as support seems to be limited at best. I ended up getting a VGA->TV-out hardware box to do it for me. Alex. -- 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