[plug] Digital TV

[Brad Campbell]

Michael Collard wrote:
> Just letting you all know that I now have working Digital TV in Linux
> with the VisionPlus DVB-T card :). I would grab a couple of screenies
> but my MPlayer is playing up with X11 output, and I can get a screenie
> of the hardware overlay xv uses.
> 
> I do have a question though, what is a good viewer app (non KDE) for
> DVB? I don't want something like MythTV which is kinda overkill for what
> I want.

Mplayer!
Just use dvbstream to stream directly through Mplayer.

I don't have analogue telly over here, only FTA Satellite. I use a hacked up bash script with all my 
channels, drive that with a StreamZap IR Remote and use Mplayer to stream the show (sometimes via a 
temporary file on the disk to allow me to pause, rewind and skip ads.

Oh yeah, I'm using the mga kernel module with a Matrox G450 with the second head connected to my 
projector so my telly is actually 8 foot diagonal. On FTA Satellite the bit rate is only about 
2.5Mbits so it's pretty blocky but FTA DVB-T should look really great.


Regards,
Brad