Peter Magellan wrote: >>Yeah, I don't think doing some kind of funny scaling in software would > >>mean anything in the end - part of the reason that I want to write my > >>own app rather than use the windows ones (besides that windows in > >>general, and most of the windows dvb software as well, sucks). Correct > >>me if I'm wrong, but there doesn't really seem to be a good linux app > >>for discovering new channels (I mean PID searching not blind > >>searching), storing a chanel list, controlling diseqc, and monitoring > >>signal strength, as well as sometimes just watching some TV. The > >>windows apps all have good intentions, but they all suck for one > >>reason or another. > > > > Yeah, and we all know how mega COOL and super stable and perfect the > Linux DVB apps are, right ? > > And how Linux **rocks** for drivers for all the dvb stuff out there, > and how you have to waste ur entire life compiling stuff to work > properly, right ? > > > once you have a stable dvb setup in linux you don't need to constantly upgrade it. With linux+linuxtv's drivers I had rock stable setups every time I upgraded the drivers, and out of all windows applications only mythtv turned out to be a nightmare, so I ditched it. All other applcations always worked well. Unfortunately I could *never ever* got a stable windows setup for dvb in 3+ years, so the longest uptime when using dvb was barely 3 minutes
