[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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