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[Kenneth Dixon]

Hi Ross, 

The Nova T 500 should work out of the box on 8.04, and
mythtv-setup (0.21) should be able to tune in to the DVB-T
signal if it's there. 
It's possible you don't have a strong enough signal, I have
had trouble with TV3/C4 in the past due to a weak signal.
DVB-T is UHF, so if you get good Prime reception it is
likely you can get DVB-T if available (ironically).
My only other suggestion would be to try tuning it using the
Great Britain setting for tuning.

Once tuned, to view the channels properly you will need to
get Paul Kendall's patched version of MythTV. He has done a
lot of work getting it going for New Zealand's DVB-T and has
an Ubuntu repository. 
just add the line:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/paul-kcbbs/ubuntu hardy main
to the end of:
/etc/apt/sources.list
then:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

let us know how you get on.

Good luck, Ken


----- Original Message Follows -----
> Hi everyone,
> 
> My name is Ross.  I live in Hamilton and I am giving
> Freeview HD a go on MythTV.  I have built a Home Theatre
> PC using the satellite Freeview which worked well.  I am
> new to Linux so I also hope to learn more about that too. 
> Anyway hopefully you guys can help me get my system going.
> 
> I have built a Intel Core2duo E8200, 2G ram dual channel,
> 2x500GB HD system with a Hauppauge WinTV Nova T 500 dual
> tuner card.  I installed Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit Desktop
> version using software raid.  I then installed the MythTV
> Master backend and frontend on this system using Synaptic.
> 
> Now I am stuck trying to configure the backend to receive
> the channels.  I don't know how to diagnose whether its
> because I have configured it incorrectly or because there
> is actually no signal. Also there doesn't appear to be any
> howtos explaining how to set up Freeview HD at the moment.
> 
> Any links to any howtos or ways to check if I have
> everything configured correctly?  Anyone living in
> Hamilton?
> 
> Regards
> Ross
> 
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