computer == TV ?
1.11.2006 17:45 Perma-LinkAustria is going to switch terrestrial TV to DVB-T. Since I have to switch my TV setup anyway, why not give watching TV via computer a try.
I bought a Hauppage WinTV HVR-900 USB stick, which has a hybrid tuner (DVB-T/analog).
- Windows: analog works, no dvb-t, although I am living in an area, where it should work.
The bundled software works, but crashes often, especially in my setup with the desktop distributed across two screen.
MediaPortal (http://mediaportal.sf.net) still is not able to use the analog part of the tuner - Linux: Analog TV almost works, the v4l driver does not support the DVB-T part of the tuner yet. (I knew that, and that is not a problem right now)
if the usb device is connected during booting of the notebook the nvidia driver blanks the screen and there is no way of doing something usefull except rebooting by typing in the commands blind
xawtv does not start on my debian sid installation with the commercial nvidia driver
KDETV works :-) !!! Ok, now comes the almost. I can watch TV, but I do not have sound :-( Not sure if it is a v4l problem or an alsa problem. Alsa always had problems on this VAIO notebook (microphone not working eg in skype (phone conferences == rebooting to windows), wrong master control (master should be front, instead of headphone, since front==headphone on this device))
