Tv On Pandora ?

[roelandb]

Look at this cool new product that was announced,
it would be very portable and you could watch TV on your pandora with it !!

would it be possible to get working drivers for pandora for this?
(specifications only mention that windows media center is compatible)

http://www.pctvsystems.com/Products/ProductsEuropeAsia/Digitalproducts/PCTVpicoStick/tabid/203/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

 

[Polossatik]

You need to find out the chipset used in this one. Good starting point are the drivers for this stuff: http://www.pctvsystems.com/tabid/62/default.aspx/Downloads/Driver/tabid/123/language/en-US/Default.aspx

There are some DVB-T chipsets who have pretty good Linux support, other have none...

 

[Trevsweb]

are there any appications on linux for tv tuners?... assuming theres a driver. also ignoring the fact that it would drain battery.

something like this and a mobile GPRS/GPS/SMS and webcam additions would be fun experiments for try with the pandora and setup a compatabilitly guide on the wiki when the pandora is out. prevents people getting the wrong preferals

the reccomended memory seams quite high wouldnt it be terrably choppy picture.

http://www.linuxtv.org/
http://www.linuxdvb.tv/

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices seams some pinnicle devices PCTV are supported.. although someone would need to confirm this as im not a developer or particually intune with linux yet..

the previous version http://www.pctvsystems.com/Products/ProductsEuropeAsia/Digitalproducts/PCTVnanoStick/tabid/167/language/en-GB/Default.aspx
seams to work occording to the wiki

also software to watch TV listed here http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Software#Standalone_Software_to_Watch_Digital_TV

 

[pagan]

There are many TV applications for Linux, some of them even since 10+ Years. There are also many USB DVB-(S/T/C/H) (and analogue) Adapters which work flawlessly with Linux e.G. Pinnacle PCTV Sat USB or the Opera DVB-S SAT Box, which i both run successfully with my MythTV Server since years.

So if the DVB-Branch of the Linux Kernel (and some other stuff like 'firmeware loading' or I2C) is available on the ARM Platform there should be no problem in using USB 2.0 DVB Sticks.

The (imho) best Player for DVB would be mplayer (well actually the best player for just anything). An ARM port already exists.

Even greater would be a Port of MythTV for the Pandora (for Watching TV via Wlan), but that could be quite difficult as MythTV has some hevavyweight dependencies like KDE stuff.

 

[sterling976]

MythTV doesn't run well at all on BeagleBoard, even though there is an ARM version in the Angstrom repos. That is, the menus for mythfrontend seem to work just fine, but once you try to play back any media, it's game over.

Luckily, MythTV provides a pretty well-documented protocol for communicating with a Myth Backend server, and there are at least a couple lightweight libraries out there for interfacing with it.

I'm in-process of developing a proof-of-concept application based on gmyth. Initial tests were promising, and I'm able to get recorded programs streamed from my backend server to a BeagleBoard and written to SD card. I'm even able to pipe the output to mplayer, but in general, I only get 20-30 seconds of play before the Beagle crashes. I've (sort of) fixed this by implementing a streaming throttle to limit how quickly the client pulls video off the server (mercifully, myth protocol is pull- rather than push-based), but I'm having trouble dialing in the right throttle settings to allow smooth playback without using up all available memory and crashing the system. My most recent tests have been quite discouraging, but I've still got a few ideas to try out before I give up. I'll post something in the Developer section once I've either exhausted all my options or have a working prototype.

Edit: What's up with the post editor requiring double quotes on URLs now?

 

[Twiitcher]

For me, TV on the Pandy is easy. Just run Starmedia player http://smc.fightersoftinc.com/download.php?lg=en on any pc with a video capture card, and stream away. I change channels on my directTV dish with a serial - USB cable connected to my satellite box using http://www.dtvcontrol.com/ - which provides remote access for channel changing. So all that's needed on the Pandy is MMS capability (prolly using VLC media player) in x86 linux it works fine. I haven't messed around with on demand video streaming yet, but live stream works fine for me in both windoze and Linux.

Just an alternative solution to hardware to lug around.

Twiitcher

 

[pagan]

I'm in-process of developing a proof-of-concept application based on gmyth. Initial tests were promising, ... :rolleyes:

Yeah that's some great news. I really hope your further hacking will go on smoothly, you have just gained me as a (potential) user.

 

[sterling976]

For me, TV on the Pandy is easy. Just run Starmedia player http://smc.fightersoftinc.com/download.php?lg=en on any pc with a video capture card, and stream away. I change channels on my directTV dish with a serial - USB cable connected to my satellite box using http://www.dtvcontrol.com/ - which provides remote access for channel changing. So all that's needed on the Pandy is MMS capability (prolly using VLC media player) in x86 linux it works fine. I haven't messed around with on demand video streaming yet, but live stream works fine for me in both windoze and Linux.

Just an alternative solution to hardware to lug around.

Twiitcher

That's interesting. Seems very similar to Orb.

It looks like mplayer supports MMS. There's already an arm port, so you may not even need VLC to get it to run. Depends on what support has been compiled in, I guess.

Along the same lines as Starmedia, have you looked at Jinzora? It streams media files over a network, and it's open source + platform independent. It's marketed as primarily a streaming music jukebox, but it'll do video, as well. The only downside is I haven't been able to get it to stream live TV, even with some named pipe hoodoo under Linux. Well, that and you have to run a web server exposed to the internet if you want to stream media outside your home network, which comes with a whole host of other problems (DynDNS, anyone?)

@pagan: I appreciate the support, but the most likely outcome of all my tinkering is a couple shell scripts that'll let you muddle through streaming live TV or recordings from your myth box. I doubt I'll have the time to learn how to put together a usable user interface, but I'll release code if/when I get the command-line version working.

 

[korky]

http://www.tvcatchup.com/ might work if we get flash working sufficiently well, only for UK users but it's free! Use it all the time via 3g or Wifi ;o)

 

[bzar]

I've said this somewhere around here before, but Kaffeine gets the most thumbs up from me so far (for live viewing on desktop). I use mythbackend on my media box with xbmc as frontend, but that's just because of the remote-friendly interface.

 

[dflemstr]

Kaffeine gets the most thumbs up from me so far

+1, but you need a tuner, of course (just apropos the post above). Kaffeine should be very easy to port, especially if we "get KDE".

 

[puppydee]

http://www.tvcatchup.com/ might work if we get flash working sufficiently well, only for UK users but it's free! Use it all the time via 3g or Wifi ;o)

Nice site korky that'll defo be of use with my pandora if we get flash working, just signed up and watched a bit of tv