[linux-dvb] PVR on Nova-T: WebVCRPlus works

[wig amig <vv1gg1@yahoo.co.uk>]

hey everyone,

after i got Nova-T card working with RedHat 9.0 I was
looking at a load of different PVR proggies and
couldnt find anything too good. I got it all working
on a RedHat 9 build (2.4.20-18.9)

Finally, i managed to get WinTVPVR to work properly,
all it needs is for a few MySQl changes to be made...

Best way to do it is to first get the drivers for the
card built and working. Then get the latest mplayer
and configure and build that and test that it works
using mplayer dvb://'BBC ONE' command.

Then get WebVCRPlus. Unpack all the files to a web
accesible dir like /var/www/html/webvcrplus and su to
root

start the mysqld prog and set a password for the root
user if youve not used it before. Get the XMLtv
program from http://membled.com/work/apps/xmltv/ and
install that, youll prob need to get a load of perl
modules as well. Test that with the tv_grab_uk prog
and it should grab all the listings

cd to the webvcrplus dir and ./setup.pl and provide
all the info it wants. Then ./listings.pl

Next do mysql -u root -p and select the tv database.
In the station table change the type of the channel
column from int to text, and then put in the actual
channel name for each channel, eg mysql> update
station set channel="BBC ONE" where sid=1;

once thats done load up a web browser and go the
webvcrplus page, go to settings, video recorder config
and put in something like /usr/local/bin/mencoder
dvb://'#STATION#' -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -endpos
#TIME# -o "#OUTPUT#.avi" as the recording program

and hey presto! it will all work! it really does rock
as well :)

if you have any problems i suggest checking the
record.output file which is hidden away in the dir
which stores video/data as it will tell you the
mencoder command it runs and whats actually going on.

hope this is of use to someone

VViGGi

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