[mythtv-users] DVB in the UK (EPG)

Greg Cope gregcope at gmail.com
Wed Dec 15 10:36:13 UTC 2004


Many thanks.

sounds like a bargain - and quite easy to boot - no need to rebuild
the kernel....

I have a 5 month old son - so not much time for anything else!

Greg


On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:25:08 +0000, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> In message <c0e9781f041215013814d45221 at mail.gmail.com>
>         Greg Cope <gregcope at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Any good how to's on getting them working with Fedora Core2/3?
> 
> Well FC3 has all the drivers you need, and the bttv module loads
> automatically but the frontend doesn't. After some googling I wound
> up with this in /etc/modprobe.conf
> 
>   options bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
>   install bttv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install bttv && /sbin/modprobe dvb_bt8xx && /sbin/modprobe dst
> 
> I also built dvb/adapter0/* and dvb/adapter1/* in /etc/udev/devices so
> that they are copied into /dev at boot. That might not be necessary as
> the frontend wasn't loading when I did that - it may be that udev will
> add them automatically once you manage to load the frontend.
> 
> I then grabbed the DVB command line tools from linuxtv.org and build
> scan and tzap and used those to find the channels and enter the details
> in Myth.
> 
> >  > Well they came this morning and they seem to be working OK so far.
> >
> > Did you get the scan ones?
> 
> Yep.
> 
> Tom
> 
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