Tag: DVB-s

  • Ubuntu 10.04 & VDR: Setup femon plugin

    The VDR plugin femon adds a DVB status monitor to the OSD that displays signal information and some other parameters of the current selected channel. This plugin is very useful to, e.g. analyze the quality of the DVB signal. The installation is very easy, just use: # sudo apt-get install vdr-plugin-femon # sudo /etc/init.d/vdr restart […]

  • Linux & Hauppauge Nexus-S: Firmware update

    As I wrote in my article Ubuntu 9.10 & VDR: Setup with Hauppauge Nexus-S and Hauppauge Nova-S you a firmware file in order to use the full-featured Hauppauge Nexus-S DVB card under Linux. Using dmesg, you can identify the version of firmware you are currently using: # sudo dmesg | grep firm […] [    9.008521] […]

  • Ubuntu 9.10 & VDR: Setup with Hauppauge Nexus-S and Hauppauge Nova-S

    This is a step by step instruction how to setup a (basic) VDR system on Ubuntu 9.10 and two Hauppauge DVB-S TV tuner cards: Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S-Plus Rev. B1B1 Hauppauge WinTV Nexus-S Rev 2.3 1. Install Software Just go through the the Ubuntu setup process as described here; at best: Download and burn the appropriate […]