[linux-dvb] Re: xine vs mythtv

["Adrian P Challinor" <adrian.challinor@osiris.co.uk>]

Thanks for this - like a few other newbies to DVB I have been struggling to
get just a simple picture up on my box (now with the Premium TT-DVB-S and
the Nebula DVB-T card installed - see other posts for the alleged
electrocution of the Premium TT-DVB-T card!). 

I have XINE installed, and the command xine dvb://1 gets a channel displayed
(it chose BBC news 24 - not at all sure I know why). I have a picture, well
to be truthful, I have a frame. Hey - it's a start! But TV this is not. 

And CPU usages is out of this world, and this is on a 2.6 Ghz Pentium Pro. I
cant interrupt the channel. ... Hey we just had a screen refresh (after 5
minutes!). 

What am I doing wrong? 


Adrian Challinor


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-dvb-bounce@linuxtv.org [mailto:linux-dvb-bounce@linuxtv.org]
> On Behalf Of Andrew G. Wilson
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 10:35 AM
> To: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
> Cc: Dick Middleton
> Subject: [linux-dvb] xine vs mythtv
> 
> I've got the same setup here, and I've been fighting with mythtv for a
> while. I
> never tried xine before Dick suggested it - it's way more solid, doesn't
> fall
> over on bad data like myth does, and from its CPU usage, it seems to be
> using
> the HW mpeg decoder on EPIA - so I'm quite tempted to use it.
> 
> But.. as xine is primarily a video player rather than a TV app, it's not
> obvious
> how to change channels!
> 
> Can anyone who's using xine spend 5 minutes explaining how to set it up to
> do
> channel changing, volume adjustment, pause/ff/rew, and aspect changing? I
> spend
> ages looking at the docs, and you've got to trawl through mountains of it
> just
> to find out that what you want isn't documented...
> 
> Alternatively, can anyone explain how to use the xine display engine
> within
> freevo or mythtv (if that's possible)
> 
> cheers
> Andrew
> 
> 
> Dick Middleton wrote:
> 
> > strider400@optusnet.com.au wrote:
> >
> >> Ok, I think that I now have kernel 2.6.2 installed ok and the drivers
> >> dvb-core.o, bttv.o, bt878.o, dvb-bt8xx.o and sp887x.o. What else do I
> >> need to do to actually watch dvb within linux? Do I need DVBtune or
> >> DVBstream, or can I get away with just using scan? How do I use a
> >> viewer with the drivers, does this have to do with dvr0?
> >
> >
> > The best way is with Xine.  You can do xine dvb://1 where the number
> > references the line in channels.conf.
> >
> > You need a channels.conf in ~/.xine.  You can use scan to create it.
> >
> > Alternatively you can use tzap to select a channel and in another xterm
> > cat /dev/dvb/adaptor0/dvr0 to a file or redirect it to mplayer.  In this
> > case the channels.conf needs to be in ~/.tzap. I use symbolic link so
> > there's only one channels.conf.
> >
> > Dick
> >
> 
> 
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