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On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Will Dyson wrote:
> On 12/8/05, Doug Crompton <doug@crompton.com> wrote:
> > Anyone running HDTV in linux? In particuliar the HD-3000. I installed it
> > in suse10 and it finds it but I cannot seem to get the digital side of it
> > to work. NTSC works. The real problem is a digital viewer. I picked up
> > xine-hd but I get compile errors.
>
> Dunno what Suse10's kernel is. Does it use the old-style V4L digital
> interface (a nasty hack), or the new cx88_dvb module?
>
It is Kernel 2.6.13 and has kernel dvb support.
I founf a great site for configuration but I am stuck at a certain point
and not sure how to proceed. The Kernel modules are loaded and the card is
there but I cannot get the firmware to load. It uses hotplug but I have no
familiarity with hotplug. I have downloaded the extras that do scanning
and store the channels but when I run atscan I get the message 'loading
firmware' and then 'firmware not found' This is either a hotplug issue or
I don't have the firmware files in the right place. I think it should be
/usr/share/hotplug/firmware - anyone done this with SUSE 10?
> At any rate, the digital output should just be a valid MPEG-2 file,
> and regular xine or mplayer should handle it. However, take this
> advise w/ a grain of salt. I've discovered that my antenna can only
> pick up one ATSC station (which I'm not interested in), so I went back
> to recording from my analog cable.
>
Actually I have had Philly off air HDTV going here on my media system for
some time. It works quite well. I also have DirectTV and get HBO HD from
that. The off air had been a little flakey with an attic mounted antenna
but I recently put up a Winegard SS2000 on my tower. It is a rectangle
shaped amplified antenna that works very well. I get about 11 off air
signals with about 25 combined channels. In particuliar channel 12-1 -
PBSHD is very good in programming and quality. The 5.1 surround on most
channels is very nice also. Being able to see a perfectly clean off air
signal is great.
I am not sure what I will really ever do with the PCHDTV3000 other then
watch occasionally on my SUSE box. I thought I might build a recorder at
some point but the storage requirements for HD are rather large.
Doug
> Will Dyson
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