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

jng_junk at greenmail.demon.co.uk jng_junk at greenmail.demon.co.uk
Sun Mar 16 10:09:08 EST 2003


It's a Hauppauge Nova-t card. It cost £99, and so far I am very pleased 
with it. The picture quality looks fantastic on a monitor.

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Scott Favelle wrote:

> 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.
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