> > You're on the right track :) The full-feature (onboard MPEG decoder) do > > provide a V4L /dev/video0 interface, whilst the Nova-T and other budget > > cards do not (they are just tuners with a COFDM decoder and spew out a > > raw MPEG Transport Stream). > > > You can also use the Nova-t with a software decoder such as mplayer. I had it > running for several months like this with excellent results. > Record/playback/timeshift are all possible on this setup, but it's not nearly > as elegant as vdr.
So just to be sure about this. If I get the full and extremely expensive non-budget card (in particular the TT-DVB-T card), then I will get a V4L interface that I could plug xawtv into without any bother? And presumably I get another /dev/dsp device to get sound from? Channel changing is also automatic by the V4L interface? My original plan was to setup a box for mythtv and a bt878 tuner for normal terestrial TV. However, digital tv looks like it might provide a higher quality input than normal analogue TV. Obviously I am wasting CPU power by decoding and re-encoding the MPEG channel, however, using mythtv offers a few advantages such as adjustable encoding bit rate, and epg program information for the future, rather than just now/next. However, mythtv is v4l only and doesn't take mpeg input directly (shame) Obviously I will be setting up vdr as well if I get such a card, and following both projects, however, the epg is quite important to me and so I am veering towards myth until I can get this from vdr. (To be honest vdr may well do everything I want, but it seems to be difficult to evaluate unless you own a DVB card, I can't get it to fire up and run without one... There are a limited number of screen shots as well. The point is that I am not in any way against using vdr, its just that I don't know much about it. Myth I know and is working for me very well so I would like to plug a TT DVB card into it first and work from there) Thanks for any further confirmation Ed -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
