[linux-dvb] Re: Choosing DVB-T card

[fruit <fruit@ukgateway.net>]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204231244050.6742-100000@bob.daviesfam.org>,
   Stephen Davies <steve@daviesfam.org> wrote:


> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Martin Lillepuu wrote:

> > One possible choice I have available here is Hauppauge Nova-T. Have I
> > underestood correctly that I need second card eq. Nexus-S to get any
> > output for usual TV watching? Could the full featured card be
> > replaced with software player (eq. vdr, mplayer, xine)? 

> It is certainly possible to use a Nova-T in conjunction with a software
> decoder.  I use mplayer myself.  If you consider to do it this way you
> should also get Dave Chapman's dvbstream and dvbtune.

> There is even an advantage to using the Nova-T - you can grab more than
> one channel off the same mux at the same time.

> On the other hand - there's no neat "watch TV" application for the
> Nova-T. 

Jasper Taylor's telly.tcl from http://www.ed.ac.uk/~jtaylor/telly.tcl is
pretty neat, it uses mplayer too, but makes recording from Nova-t really
easy.

Note that if generating channels.conf with dvbtune 0.3 you'll need to
replace the , with a : 

Andy



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