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Rob Beard wrote: > There's always KnoppMyth for the faint hearted or LinuxMCE (which IIRC > is based on Kubuntu/MythTV and a couple of other addons). Good point. MythDora, too, come to think of it. > I had a play > with MythTV and found it to be really good. Unfortunately my DVB-T card > would only pickup the BBC Freeview channels whereas I get a perfect > signal on the Freeview box. I think it might be the card being too > sensitive. I'll eventually have another go next year when I get a HD TV > with PC input. I think that quite a few DVB-T cards aren't sensitive enough or are too picky in some other way. Or perhaps STBs are just made to be far more forgiving of poor signals -- I know it used to be the case that an STB worked on our old aerial, but the DVB cards I tried were getting 90%+ bit error rate. I shouldn't really be considered a good test case though -- we're 30+ miles from the transmitter with nothing even approaching what might be described as "line of sight". > By the way, what sort of radio stations do you get? Is it the Shoutcast > stations or BBC and UK local/national commercial radio too? "Proper" radio :) I don't listen to the internet-based stations because I really don't have enough bandwidth. These are all the radio stations that turn up in the channel scan, I think: mysql> select channum, name from channel where channum >= 700 order by channum; +---------+----------------+ | channum | name | +---------+----------------+ | 700 | BBC Radio 1 | | 701 | 1Xtra BBC | | 702 | BBC Radio 2 | | 703 | BBC Radio 3 | | 704 | BBC Radio 4 | | 705 | BBC R5 Live | | 706 | BBC 5L SportsX | | 707 | BBC 6 Music | | 708 | BBC 7 | | 709 | BBC Asian Net. | | 710 | BBC World Sv. | | 711 | The Hits Radio | | 712 | Smash Hits! | | 713 | Kiss | | 714 | heat | | 715 | Magic | | 716 | Q | | 717 | oneword | | 718 | SMOOTH RADIO | | 721 | MOJO | | 722 | Kerrang! | | 723 | talkSPORT | | 724 | Clyde 1 | | 725 | Premier Radio | | 727 | Virgin Radio | | 728 | Heart | +---------+----------------+ Being able to record stuff from R4 and R7 so I can listen to it at my leisure is the dog's danglies. Excluding the likes of "Lunar Jim" and "Bob the Builder" (not doing this results in being woken up by a screaming four year-old bouncing on my head -- same as usual, but earlier) I think I record more radio programmes than television. James -- 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