Tuning SBS using MythTV and a DVICO Capture Card on Ubuntu in Brisbane

I’ve been fiddling around with Ubuntu + MythTV for a while on the Small Form Factor machine I’d previously been carting around the country for gigs. After a reasonably excessive number of reinstalls, I finally got both MythTV and Boxee working, with the caveat that I couldn’t tune SBS, Australia’s second-best TV channel behind ABC.

It turns out that MythTV’s channels.conf file doesn’t quite work for some people. After Googling around multiple times in the intervening months since installation, I finally discovered the solution for various people has been to slightly change the frequency that MythTV searches. For Brisbane it changes to 585791667.

To edit this, open MythTV Backend Setup. Go to Channel Editor > Transport Editor

My MythTV setup shipped with 5 transports.

585500000 is for SBS in the UHF frequency band. Unfortunately, this wouldn’t tune for me. So it needs to be updated to 585791667.

After saving this and re-scanning, I got SBS1, 2, 3, 4 and HD showing up in my Channel List! Superb.

New Video Release: Edward Guglielmino – Fail With Me

I’ve just released Fail With Me, the latest of many works I’ll be producing for Edward Guglielmino‘s album Late At Night.

This joins several other videos I’ve produced recently for Ed:
Lion In Your Bed (Live)
Fail With Me (Live)
No Body Is Perfect (Live)
Caught In A Landslide (Live, Bridge Sessions)
Late At Night (Live, Bridge Sessions)

I’ve also posted on Create Digital Motion about the philosophy and techniques behind the production of this video.

Now I’m off to have lunch with Ed and plan for our next escapade.

VJ and Video Hardware Hire in Brisbane

Public Service Announcement: Alongside the usual VJ- and Video-related services, I’m now, formally, hiring out video hardware in Brisbane and South East Queensland. Links go like:

Edirol V4 Hire in Brisbane
Kaoss Pad Entrancer Hire in Brisbane
Numark AVM02 Hire in Brisbane

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