TV under 9..10

[Colin Law]

On 3 April 2010 20:14, Grizzly <Real_Grizz_Adams at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Card in slot
> So it looks like ALL I have to do now is
> run lspci to find card info
> find the driver in DVB dir (if its there in for my kernel)
> maybe upgrade kernel
> recompile kernel
> run ?scan [with tranmiter name] to put the channels in a list (current?)
> run something else to process data from above (to put channels into card
> firmware?)
> repeate 2 steps above every time channels are changed
> If I want to record there  are even more steps
>
> May have missed something, does sound a bit involved compared to Windows & Mac
>
> Card in slot
> turn on PC
> click a few dialogues (with CD in)
> Watch / Record programs
>
> So why is it that almost every other feature on Linux is soooo easy (and there
> by default) but TV is hard enough to keep even better than average users away

Just for the record, my pvr-150 ran straight out of the box in karmic.
 I think the reason it can be an issue is that the manufacturer does
not supply drivers for Linux as he does for windows.  So it is down to
whether someone in the community has done the work for your device.

Colin

>
>
> Enlightened me with this:-Re: TV under 9..10
>
>>Dne 03.04.2010 (sob) ob 13:48 +0100 je Grizzly zapisal(a):
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> Can / Is it really this hard to get a TV card to work.
>>>
>>> I have a fairly old (Hauppauge) Nova-T PCI Card which has served me very well
>>> for years (Win98-Win2K-XPPro) B U T now I'm trying to make a permanent move to
>>> Linux (ubuntu 9.10  desktop) I cant even get the sys to "see" the card
>>>
>>> Anyone who has managed this preferably without having to re-compile the kernel
>>> (can you imagine getting anyone to re-compile XP :-<)
>>>
>>> PLEASE
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Hello,
>>just some references to get you in the right track, if you haven't been
>>there already:
>>http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge
>>http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_PCI
>>
>>>From the quick look at those articles (with instructions) from links
>>above, it should work.
>>
>>Regards
>>
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