2013-12-27, 23:26
I'm looking to add PVR functionality to my setup at my new house, which has both a cable (Virgin Media) option and a DVB freeview option.
I know the DVB antenna works as it's currently hooked up to my TV directly, there is a bit of breakup when viewing freeview HD though - is this likely to be the antenna? What about cable? What free to air channels are there via cable from Virgin and is there a HD option there as there is via freeview??
The bulk of my question comes with reference to which TV card to buy? There are several on the market which flout themselves as 'new' and I want to make sure of compatibility - as far as possible - before I purchase. I'd like a minimum of two DVB-T2 capable tuners using an internal PCI type slot over USB is preferred though not required.
The card will be most likely used within a VM environment on Arch Linux or CentOS. I'm fairly comfortable with compiling a kernel so if that's required for a card then it's not the end of the world.
Then the final question comes in the shape of which backend is currently the best? I dabbled a year ago with TVheadend using a DVB-S2 card and found the results to be OK in XBMC but some basic features were lacking, such as timeshifting and comskip. Now that could easily have been my idiocy with setting it up back then, but it would be great if someone could just summarise in a few sentences TVHeadend vs MythTV vs VDR as they all are TODAY. It's so hard finding up to date relevant information!
Thanks in advance...
I know the DVB antenna works as it's currently hooked up to my TV directly, there is a bit of breakup when viewing freeview HD though - is this likely to be the antenna? What about cable? What free to air channels are there via cable from Virgin and is there a HD option there as there is via freeview??
The bulk of my question comes with reference to which TV card to buy? There are several on the market which flout themselves as 'new' and I want to make sure of compatibility - as far as possible - before I purchase. I'd like a minimum of two DVB-T2 capable tuners using an internal PCI type slot over USB is preferred though not required.
The card will be most likely used within a VM environment on Arch Linux or CentOS. I'm fairly comfortable with compiling a kernel so if that's required for a card then it's not the end of the world.
Then the final question comes in the shape of which backend is currently the best? I dabbled a year ago with TVheadend using a DVB-S2 card and found the results to be OK in XBMC but some basic features were lacking, such as timeshifting and comskip. Now that could easily have been my idiocy with setting it up back then, but it would be great if someone could just summarise in a few sentences TVHeadend vs MythTV vs VDR as they all are TODAY. It's so hard finding up to date relevant information!
Thanks in advance...