Unicode Teletext (was: Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card)

2009-01-27 Thread BOUWSMA Barry
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Maybe a full Unicode X font will include such characters > > and I can simply map them to UTF8, but I'm primarily > > interested in the text content information on my text console. > > > > Here's the pr0n... > > > > ???X???X*XX*

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
> But your Linux machine will be working with the Transport > Stream directly, selecting the particular IDs of interest. > When you look at that particular ID, you see merely a > datastream including the payload. > > So, just as your TV audio will be carried in a form which > will be similar to th

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
> The idea behind this is that Antti has suggested that your > tuner may not work well with strong signals, so we are > wanting to get a somewhat weaker signal. It could be, Ah, right, I'll give that ago, thanks. > though, that you will not get enough of a signal. This > all will depend on the

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-27 Thread BOUWSMA Barry
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > I'm connecting it to a co-axle point in my home; I lost the original > > > antenna. > > > I'm reasonably sure that point should work fine. > > In place of the original antenna, you can try a short > > length of wire, say, 5cm long for the UHF freque

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-27 Thread BOUWSMA Barry
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Daniel Dalton wrote: [Now, ideally, a teletext service, being text-based, can be] > > trivially converted to braille or spoken. I'm not sure about > > Braille..., what format do they originate in? Is it tv signal, or some > kind of text guide or something? The teletext

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi Barry, On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:41:41AM +0100, BOUWSMA Barry wrote: > Basically, this all means that your tuner sees something, > but it can't quite lock onto it. > > Right. > > Am I better getting a new card? I got this a couple of years ago when I > > was on windows, and never used it,

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi Barry, Sorry about the delay, I was out of town for a few days. > I seem to recall that in Australia, use is made of an MHEG > service. I don't know if a regular teletext service is > available -- you will see this in the results, when you have > a tuner capable of scanning. I look forward t

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-23 Thread BOUWSMA Barry
G'day Daniel, I just came up with a couple more ideas that could be worth mentioning, that you can keep in mind for the future... On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, BOUWSMA Barry wrote: > The other output format is `pids', and here's that from > back in 2006, before the use of the second audio channel > on the

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-22 Thread BOUWSMA Barry
Hi Daniel, I'm combining the replies to several messages into one response. This includes private mail for which there is no on-list content, but I hope that for the sake of other list-victims, I have included sufficient context... On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Daniel Dalton wrote: > >>> tune to: > >>>

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-21 Thread Antti Palosaari
Daniel Dalton wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:46:32AM +0200, Antti Palosaari wrote: Yes, should work out of the box. No need to install any driver, driver is included in your Kernel. /dev/dvb/adapter0/ is created. so does this mean the right modules have been loaded? Yes, drivers and firmw

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-20 Thread Antti Palosaari
Daniel Dalton wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:30:57PM +0200, Antti Palosaari wrote: Daniel Dalton wrote: Could someone please let me know what I have to do to get my msi 5580 usb digital tv tuner working with linux? What drivers do I need? What software, what should I do to test it and is it

Re: [linux-dvb] getting started with msi tv card

2009-01-20 Thread Antti Palosaari
Daniel Dalton wrote: Could someone please let me know what I have to do to get my msi 5580 usb digital tv tuner working with linux? What drivers do I need? What software, what should I do to test it and is it possible to use the remote once it is up and running? It should work with v4l-dvb / Ke