Hi all. I have searched for info on setting up a USB TV card under Linux and have been overwhelmed with the amount of info. Harvey Norman have a Kaiser Baas USB TV stick on sale at present for $48 and a Kaiser Baas dual device for $87. I thought I would take my notebook (Suse 64 12.1) down there and try the device in-store. What programs should I install before I get there, please? What is the advantage of the dual tuner stick? Thanks Andrew Greig
You will probably be right with just MythTV (and MySQL if you don't have it installed yet). It doesn't look like the official wiki has been updated for Suse 12.1 yet, but hopefully it is still of use: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Operating_system#openSUSE I suspect most people still use shepherd: http://svn.whuffy.com/wiki for the listings grabber, but I am not sure if you are able to set it up until a tuner is installed. A dual tuner stick has 2 tuners ;) which means you can record 2 channels at once, or watch another channel while one is recording. On 7 July 2012 15:30, Andrew Greig <pushin.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
** Hi all.
I have searched for info on setting up a USB TV card under Linux and have been overwhelmed with the amount of info. Harvey Norman have a Kaiser Baas USB TV stick on sale at present for $48 and a Kaiser Baas dual device for $87. I thought I would take my notebook (Suse 64 12.1) down there and try the device in-store. What programs should I install before I get there, please? What is the advantage of the dual tuner stick?
Thanks
Andrew Greig
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I suspect most people still use shepherd: http://svn.whuffy.com/wiki for the listings grabber, but I am not sure if you are able to set it up until a tuner is installed.
I just use the program info broadcast by the stations in the dvb streams. Seems give reliable listings for 7 days. Maybe other sources can give more? James
Check out the http://www.linuxtv.org website, and see if the device's chipset is supported. http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices #linuxtv on freenode are a great help. Also check if your device (chipset) requires firmware (most do) As a side note, with my dvico dual dvb-t, the quality of the signal increased when I upgraded to kernel 3.2, so having the latest kernel helps when it comes to dvb, as they are actively adding support for devices and improving drivers all the time. To get started I suggest installing dvb-apps. It comes with tunning data files for most countries (although au-Melbourne lacks C31) run the command: scan /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/au-Melbourne > ~/channels.conf to produce a channels file. Then to see if you get a good signal: tzap 'SBS HD' -c ~/channels.conf to view a stream. mplayer dvb://x@"SBS HD" Where x is the adapter # (0 if you have one device). make sure you have channels.conf copied in ~/.mplayer (-dvbin file=channels.conf wont work) I have a dual tuner but only end up watching one show at a time and don't record anything. The apps I use for watching dvb-t tv are kaffeine and vlc. mythTV is rather heavy for me. (and it also requires mysql) Good luck. Julian. On 07/07/12 15:30, Andrew Greig wrote:
Hi all.
I have searched for info on setting up a USB TV card under Linux and have been overwhelmed with the amount of info. Harvey Norman have a Kaiser Baas USB TV stick on sale at present for $48 and a Kaiser Baas dual device for $87. I thought I would take my notebook (Suse 64 12.1) down there and try the device in-store. What programs should I install before I get there, please? What is the advantage of the dual tuner stick?
Thanks
Andrew Greig
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Correction, mplayer uses devices from 1 (no 0) so if you have one device it would be mplayer dvb://1@"SBS HD" even though your device may be /dev/dvb/adapter0. Sorry about that. Julian On 07/08/12 12:01, Julian wrote:
Check out the http://www.linuxtv.org website, and see if the device's chipset is supported.
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices
#linuxtv on freenode are a great help.
Also check if your device (chipset) requires firmware (most do)
As a side note, with my dvico dual dvb-t, the quality of the signal increased when I upgraded to kernel 3.2, so having the latest kernel helps when it comes to dvb, as they are actively adding support for devices and improving drivers all the time.
To get started I suggest installing dvb-apps. It comes with tunning data files for most countries (although au-Melbourne lacks C31) run the command:
scan /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/au-Melbourne > ~/channels.conf
to produce a channels file. Then to see if you get a good signal:
tzap 'SBS HD' -c ~/channels.conf
to view a stream.
mplayer dvb://x@"SBS HD"
Where x is the adapter # (0 if you have one device). make sure you have channels.conf copied in ~/.mplayer (-dvbin file=channels.conf wont work)
I have a dual tuner but only end up watching one show at a time and don't record anything.
The apps I use for watching dvb-t tv are kaffeine and vlc. mythTV is rather heavy for me. (and it also requires mysql)
Good luck.
Julian.
On 07/07/12 15:30, Andrew Greig wrote:
Hi all.
I have searched for info on setting up a USB TV card under Linux and have been overwhelmed with the amount of info. Harvey Norman have a Kaiser Baas USB TV stick on sale at present for $48 and a Kaiser Baas dual device for $87. I thought I would take my notebook (Suse 64 12.1) down there and try the device in-store. What programs should I install before I get there, please? What is the advantage of the dual tuner stick?
Thanks
Andrew Greig
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