Play Digital TV with MPV on Linux. This is easy to setup.
How to watch Digital Television with MPV on Linux very easily. Using a USB Dongle.
DVB
Get the proper time from digital TV with the command line.
How to get the proper time from a DVB receiver with the command line. This only works if you are connected to a DVB transmission. Then you can get the time from the transmission. 4.4 Tue Mar 19 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ dvbdate –print System time: Tue Mar 19 19:43:49 2019 RX time: Tue Mar 19 … Read more
Getting hardware working on Windows 8.1 vs Linux.
Getting some hardware working on Windows 8.1 is a very hard task when you have lost the box and the CD. Whereas an installation of Ubuntu will pick it up straight away and it works perfectly. That is a fact these days. That is why Linux is preferable over Windows. Hardware support is very easy … Read more
How to view Digital Television with mplayer on Linux using w_scan to scan for channels.
How to watch DVB-T transmissions on Linux with mplayer and w_scan. This is a lot of fun.
How I got my Realtek RTL2832 DVB-T USB adapter working on Debian 7.1.
I recently bought a TVstick branded USB TV tuner that had the Realtek Rtl2832UDVB chipset inside. Following the instructions on this site: http://jms.id.au/wiki/EzcapDvbAdapter. I was able to get this device working with the 3.2 kernel on Debian Linux 7.1. Firstly; retrieve the source code for the drivers. git clone –depth=1 git://linuxtv.org/media_build.gitgit clone –depth=1 git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git Then … Read more
Using a Compro DVB T-300 card with Linux Mint.
I have managed to get my Compro DTV T-300 DVB tuner card to work on Linux Mint 12. This card has a S-Video input as well as a Composite video input and a combination analogue tuner and Digital TV tuner card. I am using the Me TV software available for Linux Mint and the software … Read more