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adq

HD DVB-T2 terrestrial TV using the PCTV Nanostick 290e

Jun 16, 2011 23:38

This blog has moved I've been following this project for a while; I've even contributed some reverse engineering work to it. (I bought one of the devices from dabs a while back). Note that the majority of the work has been done by Steve Kerrison and Antti Palosaari.

However, up until today I've been unable to use it as I didn't have a DVB-T2 signal ( Read more... )

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Looks interesting anonymous June 17 2011, 10:13:28 UTC

I've had a quick poke around the tvheadend project and it looks pretty cool. Do you have a feel on what sort of hardware you'd need in a machine running tvheadend with the nanostick? I've been wanting to do something like this but my current (headless) media server is pretty pathetic (single core ARM v5, 256MB RAM) and I may be way off the mark by even thinking about doing this. Do you have any thoughts?

Re: Looks interesting adq July 30 2011, 13:23:40 UTC

Hmm, I've only ever really run it on a dual core intel machine, not really through about running it on anything else.

I reckon the only thing of concern would be its conversion of the tv stream from mpeg2 transport stream -> MKV; not sure how much power that needs..

XBMC MSN plugin anonymous July 31 2011, 23:03:24 UTC

Sorry for OT, but this is the easiest way to contact you ;).

Your MSN plugin is broken, but I've got it to work again. I want to host it in my repo. If you don't want to give me permission or if you want to host it yourself contact me at googlecode (http://code.google.com/p/membrane-xbmc-repo/).

To keep this comment related: tvheadend is wonderful, my beagleboard can serve up to 3 clients (with one DVB-T channel). I hope that I can switch to DVB-S2 with XBMC as client soon, but the pvr-addon is imho not stable enough.

Re: XBMC MSN plugin adq October 3 2011, 17:07:04 UTC

cool, no problem with you hosting it at all!