[mythtvnz] Mythbuntu 8.04.1 - PVR-150 and NOVA S +

[Andrew Richards]

Tortise,

You have asked a lot of questions!

Regarding the Nova S; with my Nova T 500 I do :

dmesg | grep -i dvb

at the command prompt to see if the card is detected by the system. You 
could also do:

lspci

If that doesn't bring it up then the card is not detected. Do a complete 
shut down, startup, or maybe even double check it is plugged in properly.


Regarding general Myth setup; for Prime data you can either download it 
from Sky's EPG feed using epgsnoop (have a google, I don't use it 
personally) or use this setup to 
<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/290834> simply 
download the listings. For one channel I would say the second option is 
the easiest.

I personally use Mythbuntu and like it. Others use other distro's like 
KnoppMyth, I am un-aware of the advantages/disantages of different distro's.

I doubt, without significant improvements in the code, your Intel will 
run DVB-T. My 5200 X2 cannot do TV3. I don't think the 7000 series cards 
have H.264 acceleration (only MPEG2), 8000 onwards have the MPEG4 
support. And  I imagine this is a long way off in terms of Linux support.

Hope that helps out a bit, others should be able to help out especially 
with the Nova S.

Regards,

Andrew

Tortise wrote:
> Hi Mythtvers
>  
> I'm having another(!) go at setting up mythtv in Wellington, using
>  
> MythBuntu 8.04.1
> CPU AMD 2400
> RAM 3G
> Video NVIDIA 5 series AGP 128M with VGA and Composite out
> 500G SATA HDD
> PVR-150, mainly for PRIME
> NOVA-S DVB-S for other channels, if works well might add a second one.
> I want to feed a VGA monitor and also concurrently stereo / composite 
> video to an AV receiver.
>  
> I find running the setup I can only get the PVR-150 detected, with a 
> number of options, the x50 one would seem the appropriate one.
>  
> However using the DVB option the NOVA is not detected.
>  
> How do I get the NOVA-S to detect?  Its dish input is currently 
> connected to a 2 way splitter, to a working dish, the 2nd leg is to a 
> STB feeding 12V to the LNB.  The STB works fine.  NOVA-S is in the 
> second PCI slot from the AGP slot.
>  
> I am not sure about the Video Source setup and the grabber, it seems 
> of DVB-S was detected I could pull an EPG off that, however its not 
> detecting....
>  
> For the 150 is it correct that no grabber should be selected?  (And if 
> not what does one use instead?)
>  
> Have detected and added the analogue channels, however currently 
> rebooting, the black start mythbuntu screen is shown, finishes loading 
> the little bar, then it goes blank, hangs or something!  Hmmm. 
>  
> Is mythbuntu the best distribution for the above hardware?
>  
> Are there any local links that might give me some setup direction?
>  
> I hope to serve the boxes name from the firewall using a DHCP server 
> to assign hostname and IP address, as everything else on the LAN does, 
> not sure if there is anything special to do for this.
>  
> Earlier I had managed to get a non copy protected DVD to play, with 
> impressive picture quality on a 1600 x 1200 monitor, silent of course 
> though!
>  
> My plan is to use this box as combined front / back end, and assuming 
> it gets to work to later add front ends. 
>  
> Subsequently I want to work up a HD box using a dual NOVA-T 500 when I 
> have got the hang of the (simpler?) SD options,  Maybe HD will have 
> got to the point of being workable with TV3.  Current H/W plan is to 
> use a 3G Pentium / 4 G RAM with an AGP NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS, which 
> is said to have H.264 capability, I realise the Linux drivers are not 
> yet available.  I am not sure if such a config will have enough CPU to 
> do the job, but noting some comments about single processors only 
> being utilised in dual CPU's would suggest to me it might be viable?
>  
> Also not sure if that video card will have enough grunt, but if it is 
> H.264 capable, then I assume it should eventually be?
>  
> In advance, many thanks.
>
> Kind regards
> David Hingston
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