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[ee]

Hi everyone,

Has anyone of you got analog and digital TV working with some tiny USB TV dongle on the Asus EEE? Must be cool to use it as a television while travelling!

[timoki]

I wonder if this is going to work, because usually USB TV dongle requires high CPU usage. I'm not sure if the eee's CPU will be strong enough to keep up with that.

[grunk]

I had no problem getting the Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900 working under XP and the picture is not bad at all, mostly due to the high dpi of the eeePC screen. The CPU and GPU are more than capable of dealing with decoding digital TV signals.

Getting this to work under Xandros is much more difficult, however, and involves a lot of console work and kernel recompilation, so is probably better left to a clean install of another flavour of Linux.

[ee]

Interesting, grunk!

I wonder if anyone has one working with Xandros at all!

[timoki]

Here you can find a list of general USB TV dongles which are know to be working or not working with Linux:

http://www.qbik.ch/u....php?pattern=TV

[mountainfreak]

Maybe it doesn't work under linux but here you can find a cheap usb tv adapter.
http://www.geeks.com...V-USBST&cpc=SCH
I thought of that but since I hate.... absolutely hate all things controlled by mass media corporations.... I would hate it.
None-the-less a great idea and please let us know your mileage on the ordeal.

[cheesemp]

EEE would do DVBT easy. I had an old PIII 933 running as a mythtv box. It could do live tv (with pausing) or playing back a recording while recording something else so the EEE could do even better. The high specs on the box are for windows which seems to need 4 times the power!

[kaiger]

Dears

There is an easy way to get DVBT with EEE,ASUS U3000mini can support EEE both Linux and Windows,


Linux driver for U3000mini
http://dlsvr01.asus....PC_TVDrv_12.zip

Linux TV application for U3000mini
http://dlsvr01.asus...._TVAP_15713.zip


Windows TV application for U3000mini (Special support 800x480 resolution)
http://dlsvr01.asus....PC_v260beta.zip



I have success install it and watch DVBT TV .
Linux install steps:
1.Put related file in home folder and extract it.
2.Install Driver: after unzip the driver file, there will be 3 file, press ctrl+alt+t to open console mode, press "sudo su" to get administrator , and then press "./install_u3000"

3.Install Application: the same, in console mode press"./install_vdr"

4.After that, reboot is needed, and for first time using, press F1 to select country and then scan channel.
5.Hot keys : Esc -> exit , up -> channel up down -> channel down .



Windows install steps:
The same as normal windows driver and TV application .

Edited by kaiger, 05 January 2008 - 05:19 PM.

[Yoda]

Hi kaiger, I have ordered one of the u3000mini sticks and will have a go at installing it to my Eee, Unfortunely your the link to the Linux Tv app brings up a blank page. But i did manage to find the App by googling it. I will let you know how i get on ;). Atb Derek.

Edited by Yoda, 06 January 2008 - 11:56 AM.

[kaiger]

Hi, Yoda,
I am not sure why you can not download.
But You can find these files on www.asus.com, it's in download page of U3000mini

[Yoda]

Many thanks for the additional links. Atb Derek.

[alanbcohen]

If you are in the US, please keep in mind the under-announced changeover to broadcast DIGITAL TV starting next year (2009). Any analog tuners WILL NOT WORK without some kind of adapter, like the converters (supposably on sale - haven't seen one yet), or a cable/Satellite box.

[gmc]

This is a very valid point.

Unless the device can also tune in radio stations, it'll just be a USB dongle after Jan/09.

Gord

[tywen]

I have the Hauppauge HVR-900 usb TV stick and am not having good luck running it
as a Digital Tuner. I have Win XP loaded and using WatchHDTV and on all the Digital
channels, it seems to freeze after about 5 seconds, audio is ok. This is not even
using the recorder either.

I have 1GB memory and CPU load is about 40% even if the picture is frozen, but
audio is fine. (I have tried VMR7/force primary/and Use overlay).

The HVR-900 runs great on my iMAC C2D running XP under boot camp.


Anyone using the HVR-900 with Digital TV on the EEE PC... NOT overclocking?

Edited by tywen, 07 January 2008 - 07:12 PM.

[Riker]

Has anyone found a USB Digital TV receiver which works and doesn't require an additional antennae attachment ??

The USB sticks I have seen have rather weak antennaes, requiring the antennae attachment or an external aerial.

[Riker]

Quote

This is a very valid point.

Unless the device can also tune in radio stations, it'll just be a USB dongle after Jan/09.

Gord

Most of the USB TV sticks are either digital tuners, or digital/analogue tuners however so should be fine.

[Yoda]

Well finally my asus U3000mini turned up this morning, I found a company in the uk called DigitalKind that sells them. And it does work really well, I have noticed in the linux version, there are no radio stations :(. I will try it in XP later to see if any radio stations appear on there. I found it very very easy to install, so many thanks Kaiger for showing me how to install the software as well as bringing it to my attention. Well add to this post later about XP. Atb Derek.

[Tux]

The Nebula USB works great on the XP (provided that you overclock), but requires an external aerial.

[majorusa]

Quote

I have the Hauppauge HVR-900 usb TV stick and am not having good luck running it
as a Digital Tuner. I have Win XP loaded and using WatchHDTV and on all the Digital
channels, it seems to freeze after about 5 seconds, audio is ok. This is not even
using the recorder either.

I have 1GB memory and CPU load is about 40% even if the picture is frozen, but
audio is fine. (I have tried VMR7/force primary/and Use overlay).

The HVR-900 runs great on my iMAC C2D running XP under boot camp.


Anyone using the HVR-900 with Digital TV on the EEE PC... NOT overclocking?

I am using a Kworld DVB-T 323U USB tuner and Arcsoft Total Media Monitor 3.5. The SD digital reception is working just fine. The Mpeg 4 HD is giving me the symptoms you describe. So it is clear for me that the eeePC is not able to decode HD signals. But when freezes the CPU is at 100%.

My PC runs stock ASUS Bios and has 1GB DDR2 RAM and XP Professional.

[devil2k]

Sux to be in Canada, I onlt have 2 local stations. In Taiwan, digital TV is free and broadcasted through air. Here they even want to charge for satellite radio. This is so stone age...