Difference between pages "Set up DVB/T viewing with a USB Stick on Linux" and "Getting linux"

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Please review this article, it has not yet been tested on a clean system.  
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Linux is just a kernel, which is the core of a operating system.  
  
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In Ubuntu 8.10 with a WinTV Nova-T USB Stick. As viewer we will use vlc for a test, later you can move to more sophisticated front-ends like mythtv
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Usually you need many programs, like a desk top environment and a konsole (in unix-terms: a shell) to be able to install and run programs. Many of these programs, e.g. the konsole(=shell) or a C-compiler to build the kernel were distributed with a special license, the GNU Public License, which is a free license: usually these programs do not cost money.
  
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* install the software
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A core of operating system relevant programs underlying the GNU Public License forms the GNU project. As Linux without these programs would be just a useless operating system core, some people refer to Linux as the operating system core and to GNU/Linux as the core and the programs.  
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sudo apt-get install dvb-utils vlc
 
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* download the firmware
 
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wget http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/home/linux-dvb-firmware/dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw
 
  
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;Note: There is new firmware available but it has some issues. Feel free to try it.
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The combination of Linux and GNU programs (=GNU/Linux) plus usually also programs underlying other free licenses like Apache is called a distribution.
  
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Info: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500#Firmware
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Linux<GNU/Linux<=Distribution
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Firmware: http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/home/files/dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw
 
  
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* Copy the firmware to the right location
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A good description of the most prominent distributions (there are [http://distrowatch.com/ hundrets of them]) along with download instructions can be found at http://www.getlinux.info/
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sudo cp dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw /lib/firmware
 
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plug in the device, it should then be visible via "ls /dev/dvb/adapter0"
 
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* potentially: in /etc/modprobe.d/options (sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options)  
 
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** Add: options dvb-usb-dib0700 force_lna_activation=1
 
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* scan for channels and save results in ~/channels.conf, please adjust the region accordingly, in the example its de-Frankfurt: 
 
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scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/de-Frankfurt -o zap | tee ~/channels.conf
 
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* start vlc,  Media|open file, select all files and open the ~/channels.conf
 
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* you should now be able to tune to different channels using your playlist (Wiedergabeliste)
 

Revision as of 15:54, 7 March 2009

Linux is just a kernel, which is the core of a operating system.

Usually you need many programs, like a desk top environment and a konsole (in unix-terms: a shell) to be able to install and run programs. Many of these programs, e.g. the konsole(=shell) or a C-compiler to build the kernel were distributed with a special license, the GNU Public License, which is a free license: usually these programs do not cost money.

A core of operating system relevant programs underlying the GNU Public License forms the GNU project. As Linux without these programs would be just a useless operating system core, some people refer to Linux as the operating system core and to GNU/Linux as the core and the programs.

The combination of Linux and GNU programs (=GNU/Linux) plus usually also programs underlying other free licenses like Apache is called a distribution.

Linux<GNU/Linux<=Distribution

A good description of the most prominent distributions (there are hundrets of them) along with download instructions can be found at http://www.getlinux.info/

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