Hi there,
After reading a brazillian blog (
http://dougsland.livejournal.com/103169.html) I decided
to buy a
Pixel View PlayTV USB SBTV dongle to watch digital television. The instructions worked
fine for a
Fedora 11 notebook, and better yet after I installed Fedora 13, because there was no need
anymore to
build drivers and provide firmware files, That is, F13 detects and works with the usb
dongle
out-of-the-box. Actually I tried two dual-core notebooks, really nice machines and two
netbooks.
Of course I do have many rpmfusion packages for extra cocecs and the like.
But it doesn't works perfectly (neither F11 with the custom built kernel drivers).
When I try to
watch a channel, it may get the channel I chosse or it may choose the HD or 1SEG channel.
So, when I
do have a good machine and strong signal and want to watch and HD channell, I may get the
1SEG
version of the same channel. And when I'm using a notebook, which doesn't have cpu
power for HD
decoding and wish to watch the 1SEG channel, I usually get the HD version of the same
channel.
So the question is: how can I make sure my usb digital tv dongle gets the HD or 1SEG
channel? What
info should I get to helo debug this problem?
Another problem: I can only get digital TV from VLC. Although both Totem, MPlayer and
Me-TV are
supposed to allow me to watch digital TV, and they display the digital tv as an option to
play, none
of them (except vlc) can tune and decode the tv stream, although I use the same
channel,conf for
all.
PS: The Brazillian Digital TV standard is called SBTV or ISDB-Tb
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBTV)
is used on many latin american countries and is an incompatible variation of the Japanese
system
(ISDB-T)
[]s, Fernando Lozano