[mythtv-users] Where to start?

Damian Surr damian at gingermagic.com
Tue Jan 9 16:34:51 UTC 2007


Great, thanks Ash.

Think I'm settled on the Nova-T cards.
Need to decide on the output card for the projector now.
Maybe I should decide on a projector first?

Damian

Ashley Bostock wrote:
> You can have the best of both worlds and run both the radio times 
> grabber and EIT.
> That way you get the better radio times listings and also data for the 
> radio channels.
>
> On your nova-t question, just plug them both in.  They are supported 
> by most Linux distros "out of the box" - well at least with ubuntu and 
> anything else with a fairly recent 2.6 kernel.
>
> Ash
>
> On 1/9/07, *Damian Surr* <damian at gingermagic.com 
> <mailto:damian at gingermagic.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     > On 09/01/07, Damian Surr <damian at gingermagic.com
>     <mailto:damian at gingermagic.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >>> On 09/01/07, Damian Surr <damian at gingermagic.com
>     <mailto:damian at gingermagic.com>> wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>> Right, the Nota-T-500 sounds like a good card, but a bit
>     beyond my Linux
>     >>>> capabilities at the moment. I think I'd be wanting to use EIT
>     too. Is
>     >>>> there any reason that you don't Peter?
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>> I get all the schedule info I need from mythfilldatabase /
>     >>> tv_grab_uk_rt - it doesn't include the radio channels, but I'm
>     not
>     >>> fussed about those. I don't know if I'm missing any extra
>     detail, or
>     >>> timeliness, though...
>     >>>
>     >>> Peter
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >> Right, I probably need to have MythTV set up to know what
>     you're talking
>     >> about :-) I wouldn't know mythfilldatabase from EIT if I saw
>     them both
>     >> walking down the street.
>     >>
>     >
>     > mythfilldatabase is a scheduled (usually daily) task which calls a
>     > 'grabber' script (in my case tv_grab_uk_rt) to download listings
>     data
>     > from an internet source - in this case, radiotimes.com
>     <http://radiotimes.com>. The RT data is
>     > enriched with reviews, rather than just the programme descriptions
>     > from the broadcaster, which I personally like a lot (others may well
>     > have the opposite view).
>     >
>     > EIT is the over-the-air protocol on DVB-T for listings information,
>     > which Myth can grab as often as you want it to.
>     >
>     > Peter
>     >
>     Sounds great. I'll be sure to try to get that set up once I've got
>     Myth
>     running and try both options.
>
>     Damian
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