Building a MythTV box, part 0.
I've had a hankering to build a MythTV box, since about when I first discovered MythTV. The hankering was increased when I went around to Rick's place a while ago and saw his DVB-T card in action.
On the weekend, I bought what (fortunately) turned out to be a rebadged DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus at the Computer Fair, which is of the same breed as what Rick was running.
Some clever person has managed to reverse-engineer a driver for the card, but frustratingly, it's a royal pain to build. After a weekend of dicking around, I managed to get it to build against 2.6.9, but I'm getting heaps of symbol errors when I try to insert the modules.
When I first got home with the card, I thought I'd have a quick play with it under Windows 2000 to see what the reception was like in the study with the cheap and nasty rabbit ears I bought. Given the card is designed for Windows, you'd expect it to Just Work, right? Wrong. This is Windows after all.
If I have the drivers enabled, Windows 2000 blue-screens on bootup. If I boot into Safe Mode, disable the drivers and reboot, Windows boots fine. I can then enable the drivers (without rebooting) and watch TV. Whacked. I tried every version of the driver I could get my hands on and the outcome was the same. I'll have to drop them an email. Granted, my machine isn't quite of the specs they say... It's a 1.4Ghz Pentium IV, with a GeForce2 card, and the specs say you're supposed to have a 2.6 Ghz Pentium IV or something if you don't have a select few nVidia or ATI cards. But it plays back fine. Chews about 50% CPU.
I'm absolutely fanging to get it working under Linux though...