Imagine my excitement when my Satellite DVB-S card turned up today. 5 minutes later and the card is installed. Mythbuntu boots and it all gets found. Channel scan turns up hundreds of channels (most marked as "scrambled"). Read a few posts on the MythWiki and I have the channels in the list ... and thereby starts the problems
Firstly ... so many channels, many without proper idents to let you know what's what. Organising them into any sort of ordered list is just a nightmare I don't want to consider right now! So, on to watching the TV and things get a little funky - mostly because I didn't have a working remote, and trying to control live TV via VNC is ... painful ... to say the least! So, I finally get the "rocketRed" flash network controller working and things get a bit easier ... until you want to read the channels in the EPG ... fonts are just so far out of whack that they only display a small fraction of the channel names.
Moving on, I tested the recording features. To start with, all good. A few programs set up to record automagically ... and they do. Even the advert detection seems to work well, however now I have a hard drive full of mpg files, even though I only have four recordings ... and they are taking up about 12Gb! A little digging and googling later I work out how to transcode the recordings which saves a little space - just need to work out what's what in the files to see if I can get rid of any.
Next step - waiting for the remote control I ordered off eBay to arrive, and then look at seeing if I can install the TV aerial somewhere useful so I can look at putting a dual tuner DVB-T to give me some more scope, as well as either sourcing a much larger hard drive for the system, or making a new backend system with much more capacity in.
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