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[12:08] < vmlemon_> Hi

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[13:42] < vmlemon_> Hi Davbo

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[14:25] < vmlemon_> Hmm, that was as they say "made of fail"

[14:39] < Davbo> Hey all

[14:41] < vmlemon_> I upgraded the kernel, after being told that someone else got Wi-Fi monitor mode working on a later version, using the same chipset as I have, and all I managed to get from Wireshark was 1 mangled packet

[14:41] < vmlemon_> How crappy

[14:41] < vmlemon_> Gotta love Wi-Fi on Linux

[14:42] < vmlemon_> Even with "supported" hardware that's known to work (i.e. Atheros chips)

[14:42] < vmlemon_> Wow!

[14:42] < vmlemon_> Amarok is actually playing an audio file

[14:43] < vmlemon_> I never thought that would happen, even after spending hours installing codecs

[14:48] < vmlemon_> Shame that audio playback is incredibly jittery :|

[15:20] < vmlemon_> (http://picasaweb.google.com/tyson.key/MiscStuff#5282657111584338706 - screenshot of the now working Amarok)

[16:12] *** Davbo restarted his blog

[16:12] < Davbo> http://davbo.org/blog/ :) the new wordpress is really nice

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[16:33] < vmlemon_> WTF? http://www.dailytech.com/Former+Diskeeper+CIO+Says+He+Was+Fired+for+Refusing+Scientology+Indoctrination/article13752.htm

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[18:37] < mabdallah> hi all , does kamaelia support DVB-s cards?

[18:37] < vmlemon_> Yes

[18:38] < vmlemon_> Thanks to some recent work, it also supports DVB-C cards, too

[18:38] < mabdallah> great

[18:38] < vmlemon_> (It's always supported DVB-T as far as I know)

[18:39] < vmlemon_> Not sure what you'd have to do differently in your code to use a DVB-S card, but it shouldn't involve too many changes

[18:39] < vmlemon_> I've only got access to DVB-T hardware here, though

[18:39] < vmlemon_> It's pretty much just the tuning and modulation options that you have to worry about

[18:41] < mabdallah> actually i want to use kamaelia DVB utilities to drive my DVB-S (change channel, capture the stream), is this doable in the current version ?

[18:42] < vmlemon_> Certainly

[18:42] < vmlemon_> If I remember correctly, the code was originally designed to handle DVB-S devices, so the mailing list post I'm reading reckons

[18:43] < vmlemon_> There's some sample code, too

[18:44] < vmlemon_> http://groups.google.com/group/kamaelia/browse_thread/thread/865b8880ce21381e?pli=1, http://www.kamaelia.org/Cookbook/DVB/SingleChannelTransportStreamCapture

[18:44] < vmlemon_> and http://www.kamaelia.org/Cookbook/DVB/TransportStreamCapture should get you started

[18:45] < vmlemon_> http://www.kamaelia.org/Cookbook/DVB/TransportStreamDemuxer handles multiple channels in a TS

[18:46] < vmlemon_> You might have to change the constellation setting to dvb3.frontend.QAM_64 or dvb.frontend.QAM_128 if I remember correctly for DVB-S

[18:46] < vmlemon_> depending on the DVB service provider

[18:47] < vmlemon_> Naturally, the frequency would also need changing to suit, and I'm not too sure about the FEC stuff

[18:47] < vmlemon_> I hope that helps

[18:48] *** vmlemon_ sees that rigolo or one of the BBC folks (MS- and mhrd) aren't here at the moment, since they're familiar with this stuff

[18:50] < mabdallah> thx ya man.

[18:50] < vmlemon_> No problem

[18:51] < vmlemon_> The DVB code in the examples lends itself well to quick reuse, so I've found

[18:51] < vmlemon_> (I've got several versions of one of the examples on my desktop box that deal with different DVB-T multiplexes, and append stuff to the end of files instead of creating new ones, for example)

[18:52] < vmlemon_> Although that's pretty much the spirit of Kamaelia

[18:57] < mabdallah> does kamaelia supports converting the transport stream captured from DVB to any other format to save disk space?

[18:57] < vmlemon_> Just a moment...

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[20:54] < vmlemon_> Hmm, has anyone actually got the iPlayer for Linux to work?

[20:55] < vmlemon_> I've been able to install it, and it seems to run, but it just reckons that it's "Offline"