[ossig] Re: [myoss] mythtv for astro

[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 10:25 +0800, Changching Yew wrote:
> I intend to transform my old pc into a mythtv pvr box to better manage
> my tv viewing time. Anyone working on similar project here in
> malaysia?

Better not be an old pc...

> There r a number of issues in getting it to work with astro
> 1. Getting a good encoder card
> Looking at Hauppauge PVR250 (RM 399) or PVR150 (RM ???). PVR150 looks
> like a good deal as it includes both remote and ir blaster but I have
> yet to find it fully supported under linux.

Hmm, I had a K-World taiwanese thing back in '99 that worked with astro
just fine. Linux supported, allowed me to record mtv (which were Britney
videos for a friend's birthday ;-)), and worked like a charm generally

> 2. Getting mythtv change channel on astro box automatically
> The solution is to use an IR blaster to change channel on astro set
> top box. But I have yet to find the correct IR code to use with astro
> set top box. Would write up the IR transmit if could get the astro IR
> spec.

Well, the frequencies can be gotten if you have a Palm (or an IR
receiver and something that grabs the ir freq's). I've done this before,
also, back then (when it was cool to run omniremote on my Palm IIIx, ooh
sexy beast)

> 3. Grabbing astro schedule
> There are currently no xmltv grabber script for schedules on
> astro.com.my. I have tested txvb which works great with astro.
> Unfortunately tvxb is windows only and not open source. Thinking of
> write up xmltv grabber script...

It is there on astro.com.my, under programming -> channels. Regular text
asp pages, write a perl parser and you'll be fine

> Any collaborater out there??

I wouldn't mind, if I had
a) more time
b) astro regularly [1]

[1] - no I'm not on some pirate card fix or anything, I'm just not
in .my to catch astro often enough to care
-- 
Colin Charles, http://www.bytebot.net/


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