I've just acquired a Nova-T card. Surprisingly, it works quite well from Windows with a naff indoor aerial; I seem to be tuned in to the Hannington transmitter, as far as I can tell (I'm in the UK). I get TMF and The Hits through smoothly; good enough for testing. However, I'd really like to get it working from Linux. (The usual plans to build my own PVR.) Unfortunately I have been unable to get a working set of Linux drivers and applications. I've found at least three drivers, and at least two sets of applications, all of which are mutually incompatible. The driver and the applications that come with Debian don't work. The nightly build from linuxdvb.tv appears to work, and tzap appears to tune, but I have nothing that will actually fetch video. Debian's dvbstream won't work with it; the latest dvbstream won't build with it. Can anyone point me to where I can get a set of matching drivers and applications that show some sign of working? I want to use dvbstream to get MPEG-2 streams off the card, which I can then play with xine or mplayer (or save to disk). In fact, dvbstream's multicast facility is ideal for what I want to do. It's all very frustrating. The picture quality from Windows is excellent, but I can't do anything with the data. And I've so nearly got things running on Linux... -- David Given dg@cowlark.com
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