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Le 2012-09-30 02:29, Nick Rout a écrit :
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Now I wondered if I was right so I looked further! googling this card
and linux mainly results in posts by you to the mageaia mailing lists
LOL. One points here
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.factorydirect.ca/Product.aspx?sku=PO0010">http://www.factorydirect.ca/Product.aspx?sku=PO0010</a> which has a pic.
The pic shows a sticker on the card listing a number of analogue TV
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Yup, I had tried to sign-up to the MythTV mailing list 3 times
before I finally got a reply to my sign-up -- it almost looks like
sign-ups are moderated. Anyway, I am glad I am on the list as it
look like quite a friendly and helpful list. However, as you most
likely read, the members on the Mageia list convinced me that using
MythTV on Mageia was indeed as possible as any other distro; their
experience were all positive.<br>
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As to the PowerView TV card that is mentioned in your text, yes, I
have been making reports for a few years on the Mandriva then Mageia
forums to keep anyone else appraised of the compatibility of the
card with TV time, as well as the setup to make them work on these
distros. It uses the Philips 713x or Bt 878 chipsets (labelled on
the card). It says it provides Mpeg1 or Mpeg2 compression, but I
always assumed it did this through software, but, only on the
Windows side. It does not support Linux; I am not sure how to test
this to see if it is through hardware. The manuals are quite cryptic
and do not offer clear details ... obviously for the price you pay,
you get what you pay for.<br>
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I have installed dozens of these on Linux boxes as they used to cost
around $12each but are now retailing slightly above $20Cdn. I have
not heard of any of the owners complaining of loss of service yet.<br>
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This reinforces my view that the card is analogue only, and you are
getting some leftover Rogers analogue service.
That may be switched off any time, so you will want to consider a move
to digital, but you might also fall foul of various encryption
problems - I don't know what Rogers makes available "in the clear".
You will need the advice of others on the same or similar services to
advise properly.
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Hmmm, not sure. I thought that the notes we received from Rogers
stated that if you used analog TV that there was no loss of
channels. If you purchased a digital TV, then, some channels would
be affected, and of course, they were advertising their "set top
box" to fix this. I am a little fuzzy on this, but for now, we are
getting all of our channels and our recent purchase of a digital TV
(we finally joined the 21st century, yeah!), we are in fact getting
some extra channels.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Marc<br>
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