[mythtv] Re: Adding DVB-T support to MythTV

[Scott Favelle]

I can't answer your question but I am very interested in what card this is and how much it cost?

Cheers... Scott

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:00:22 -0500
mythtv-dev-request at snowman.net wrote:

> 
> I've just bought a (budget) DVB-T card. I've had success using it from the
> command line and now want to do more with it. I've had a look at MythTV
> and like the look of it. I would like to volunteer to add DVB-T support to
> MythTV, but I think I'm going to need some help to get started.
> 
> With it being a budget card you have to do all the mpeg decoding in
> software, although potentially with the assist of your graphics card. I
> was wondering if anybody could give me some brief pointers on the
> structure of the source code to MythTV, and where I might hook in my
> replacement video code. The DVB-T card effectively gives you a /dev/...  
> file that you can read directly as an MPEG stream. So I'm going to have to
> take this and hook it into whatever MythTV is using already.
> 
> Things I need to know are how the current video code works in MythTV and,
> how the overlays work in MythTV (eg. how the EPG stuff is done on top of
> the video, and how it is done semi-transparently)?
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated,
> 
> James.