[mythtv-users] MythTV in Egypt

[Ivan Kowalenko]

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On May 16, 2006, at 13.54, White Joe wrote:

> A friend is finally regarding my MythTV setup with the proper  
> amount of
> reverence and envy.  Unfortunately, he spends time in the US, Egypt  
> and
> Dubai and is asking me if MythTV supports arabic and if anyone if  
> there
> are tuner cards that will work in both the US and Egypt/Dubai.  I told
> him that I thought that the menu text is contained in XML docs, so if
> the Linux box supports arabic, then so should MthTV.  I also told him
> that unless Egypt/Dubai use the US version of NTSC that he would  
> have to
> get whatever card supported the signal in those countries.
>
> Is that accurate and complete?

Mostly. There are a couple of hang-ups, though. A big worry is going  
to be getting listing information. Can you get listings for Egypt and/ 
or Dubai? Also, I'm not sure that that region uses NTSC. I think I  
read somewhere that they use PAL. You'd better research that a bit  
more. You might need a system with two tuners, or one that can switch  
modes. I have an old ATI TV-Wonder VE that could be set into NTSC or  
PAL modes, but it's a framegrabber.

My only other worry is going to be handling left-to-right XML and  
right-to-left text. Last time I dealt with that, I was inserting text  
into a presentation, and neither OpenOffice nor PowerPoint treated it  
too friendly.

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