<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 19/03/2009, at 5:56 PM, Andrew Gordon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Steven Ellis wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I've been send a review unit of the DVB-T compatible HDHomeRun and the <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">first part of my review is now online.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/2009/03/18/hdhomerun-review-part-1/">http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/2009/03/18/hdhomerun-review-part-1/</a><br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Hi Andrew.</div><div><br></div><div>Nice to hear from another user </div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Mine (my own purchased one) arrived nearly a couple of weeks ago now.<br><br>I tried it with Windows first, which worked fine. The basic PVR <br>software it downloaded/installed worked as well as it could with my old <br>hardware. Including sound, video and EPG (more than just now/next, it <br>included past and future programs as well).<br><br>My Mac experience went I bit better than yours. GTK downloaded and <br>installed without a hitch. I also downloaded the latest VLC replacing <br>an older one in the Applications folder so I didn't have the same path <br>issue you did. No where near as featured as the provided windows <br>software, but I I was somewhat pleasantly surprised to find all channels <br>working fine with VLC. Although the HD channels where a little bit too <br>much for my little Mac laptop to keep up with quite a bit of the time. <br>Yes, passing more stuff through to VLC would be good. When you access a <br>DVB-T tuner directly with VLC it can display channel names and the name <br>of the current program so having that working with the HDHomeRun <br>shouldn't be totally out of the question. HDHomeRun support built <br>straight into VLC would be even better.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Yes better VNC support would be nice. My GTK install problems are probably rare, but needed mentioning as the installer didn't recover and the application then refused to work without some serious messing about.</div><div><br></div><div>Same as yourself the 1080i channels struggled, but 720p played fine on my 2.4 GHz macbook.</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>Getting it going with MythTV hasn't been so good. The version of MythTV <br>I had installed (what ever version it is you get with Ubuntu 8.10) <br>doesn't support the DVB-T version of the HDHomeRun at all (more or <br>less). I've spent hours trying different versions and stuff. Not that <br>long in I managed to get it to do a scan and find all the channels (by <br>picking the UK as the country), but I haven't got it actually tuning in <br>and recording anything. The error I get is "Error: dtv_multiplex data <br>is required for tuning". For my reading on the Silicon Dust forums it <br>looks like this should be fixed with MythTV SVN/trunk/whatever version <br>20221. I don't know how that relates to the version "20227" that I <br>"svn"ed, but I still get the error. Might have to try a brand new from <br>scratch database. "Multirec" support is also still in development by <br>the looks of it.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes I've been reading a couple of threads about this, but I'm away this weekend so I won't have a chance to play.</div><div><br></div><div>Part 2 will cover basic Linux support including command line, the new gui, and VLC. Part 3 will be MythTV by which point we might have the DVB-T niggles sorted.</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>All in all a promising little device. Will be quite good when it is all <br>working fully, including multirec. Versions that support DVB-S(2) and <br>the encrypted streams on TelstraClear cable would make a perfect set <br>:-). Currently (when I'm not trying to get it going with Myth) I'm <br>mostly just using mine with VLC on my laptop to watch Futurama :-).<br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Agreed. Multirec would be a killer, although I'd love to see the network bandwidth for more than a couple of HD channels.</div><div><br></div><div>DVB-S(2) would be lovely as well, but I don't know their plans.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>