[linux-dvb] Re: Recommended DVB-T card for UK use please

[Guy Thouret <G.O.Thouret@newcastle.ac.uk>]

>===== Original Message From "Edward Wildgoose" <ed@wildgooses.com> =====
>> > You're on the right track :) The full-feature (onboard MPEG decoder) do
>> > provide a V4L /dev/video0 interface, whilst the Nova-T and other budget
>> > cards do not (they are just tuners with a COFDM decoder and spew out a
>> > raw MPEG Transport Stream).
>> >
>> You can also use the Nova-t with a software decoder such as mplayer. I had
>it
>> running for several months like this with excellent results.
>> Record/playback/timeshift are all possible on this setup, but it's not
>nearly
>> as elegant as vdr.
>
>So just to be sure about this.  If I get the full and extremely expensive
>non-budget card (in particular the TT-DVB-T  card), then I will get a V4L
>interface that I could plug xawtv into without any bother?   And presumably
>I get another /dev/dsp device to get sound from?  Channel changing is also
>automatic by the V4L interface?
>
>My original plan was to setup a box for mythtv and a bt878 tuner for normal
>terestrial TV.  However, digital tv looks like it might provide a higher
>quality input than normal analogue TV.  Obviously I am wasting CPU power by
>decoding and re-encoding the MPEG channel, however, using mythtv offers a
>few advantages such as adjustable encoding bit rate, and epg program
>information for the future, rather than just now/next.  However, mythtv is
>v4l only and doesn't take mpeg input directly (shame)
>
>Obviously I will be setting up vdr as well if I get such a card, and
>following both projects, however, the epg is quite important to me and so I
>am veering towards myth until I can get this from vdr.  (To be honest vdr
>may well do everything I want, but it seems to be difficult to evaluate
>unless you own a DVB card, I can't get it to fire up and run without one...
>There are a limited number of screen shots as well.  The point is that I am
>not in any way against using vdr, its just that I don't know much about it.
>Myth I know and is working for me very well so I would like to plug a TT DVB
>card into it first and work from there)
>
>Thanks for any further confirmation
>
>Ed
>

I think I am right in saying that currenyly DVB-T in the UK does not broadcast 
a full EPG and only now/next program information is broadcast.

Guy.




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