vu+ duo

fish fingers · 01-01-2011 04:59PM

@Irishchris: Whats the plugin you mentioned before that translates the name of movies to English?
Or maybe did I dream that such a thing exists lol.

byte · 01-01-2011 11:18PM

fish fingers wrote: »

@Irishchris: Whats the plugin you mentioned before that translates the name of movies to English?
Or maybe did I dream that such a thing exists lol.

Jesus, if there is such a plugin, that'd be deadly!

kierank01 · 02-01-2011 12:22AM

azzeretti wrote: »

Are you serious? You could build a HTPC capable of serving a housing estate for 900 euro!

I have built a good few of them over the years. The software is already there if you stay opensource. Any modern distro will allow you build one. SATA drives and DVD drives cost next to nothing nowadays. Gigabit NIC and reasonable processor (provided you are not transcoding which I assume you're not if you are comparing like for like) is all you need. CAMs? I have had many USB card readers configured to run with the various SoftCAMs around - these are even cheaper than hard drive.

IMO, you could build a really decent HTPC for well under 400, with multi tuners and multi card readers.

There are a couple of things, in these boxes, the cam/card readers are all internal, which will increase the price.
You are putting no cost in for you building the machine, which the manufacturers of these certianly do.
As is have said that the cost of linux is certianly not zero, and is not 'already there' as you say, if it was, why would there be continuous updates to the firmware?

Even if I was exaggerating, and 400 is a valid price, it is still twice the price of the argus edision, which dnme was compairing to the vu+/dm8000.

irishchris · 02-01-2011 02:28AM

fish fingers wrote: »

@Irishchris: Whats the plugin you mentioned before that translates the name of movies to English?
Or maybe did I dream that such a thing exists lol.

Hi mate
I can't remember mentioning one but I would imagine I meant the imdb plugin which is incorporated into vix image.when you are in vix epg scroll to any channel including foreign ones and press red for imdb and it will give you the programs name/description in english.

carbsy · 02-01-2011 09:22AM

fish fingers wrote: »

@Irishchris: Whats the plugin you mentioned before that translates the name of movies to English?
Or maybe did I dream that such a thing exists lol.

DDamir's Subtitle Player does this.

Sir Oxman · 02-01-2011 03:39PM

carbsy wrote: »

DDamir's Subtitle Player does this.

That's a great plugin!

fish fingers · 02-01-2011 03:41PM

carbsy wrote: »

DDamir's Subtitle Player does this.

I installed this last night lads, thanks. I was kinda half right lol. Half the fun is guessing what the movie is. I usually look at the description to see the actors and guess from there.

Gipo3 · 02-01-2011 11:05PM

Is it possible to stream a live web stream from web to vu+ duo using vlc player?

stanley1 · 07-01-2011 10:19AM

Hauppauge Nova-T stick is now enabled in Openpli 2.0 beta, telnet to box, copy and paste script below.

opkg update
opkg install v4l-dvb-module-dib0070
opkg install v4l-dvb-module-dib0090
opkg install v4l-dvb-module-dib3000mb
opkg install v4l-dvb-module-dib3000mc
opkg install v4l-dvb-module-dib7000m
opkg install v4l-dvb-module-dib7000p
opkg install v4l-dvb-module-dib8000
opkg install v4l-dvb-module-dibx000-common
opkg install v4l-dvb-module-dvb-usb
opkg install v4l-dvb-module-dvb-usb-dib0700
opkg install v4l-dvb-module-dvb-usb-dibusb-common
opkg install v4l-dvb-module-dvb-usb-dibusb-mb
opkg install v4l-dvb-module-dvb-usb-dibusb-mc
depmod -a

mkdir -p /lib/firmware
cd /lib/firmware
wget http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/home/files/dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw

echo dvb_usb_dib0700 > /etc/modutils/z_v4l
update-modules

reboot

stanley1 · 08-01-2011 07:51PM

drivers are on server from today. Plugins > drivers > dvb-usb-dib0700.

dnme · 08-01-2011 08:34PM

On searching the web, I am finding many versions of Hauppauge Nova-T.

Can anyone post a link to the proper version?
Is the Hauppauge Nova-T, a HD device?
Anyone aware of any bargains to be had atm?

stanley1 · 08-01-2011 10:46PM

Yes full HD, link below.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hauppauge-WinTV-NOVA-T-USB-Stick-freeview/dp/B000F8RPQE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294526640&sr=8-1

irishchris · 08-01-2011 11:08PM

is great news to see openpli supporting this now as seems a favoured usb tuner amongst many. i also had one in the past before i sold it and got a sundtek. most images on vu+ will be supporting this and may have news from vix in the coming week in this regard.

dnme · 08-01-2011 11:41PM

Folks, I'm a complete f'wit.
What is openpli?

glic83 · 08-01-2011 11:43PM

its an image you can use on your duo (other linux boxes as well)

dnme · 08-01-2011 11:53PM

An earlier poster advised me to install VIX. Does that mean I cannot use the Nova-T unless I install openpli?

Which is better, VIX or openpli?

Bear in mind, I don't have the box yet, it's on its way. I have never used Linux in my life. All I know is Windows.

glic83 · 08-01-2011 11:55PM

the receiver uses linux m8 so you dont need to know 2 much just put the image on the usb and flash via the front usb easy as that,id go with vix myself m8

dnme · 09-01-2011 12:02AM

glic83 wrote: »

the receiver uses linux m8 so you dont need to know 2 much just put the image on the usb and flash via the front usb easy as that,id go with vix myself m8

OK but if I go with VIX, then I cannot use the Hauppage Nova-T yes? If this is the case, what USB stick would work?

glic83 · 09-01-2011 12:06AM

afaik the vix image will support it shortly

stanley1 · 09-01-2011 12:07AM

dnme wrote: »

An earlier poster advised me to install VIX. Does that mean I cannot use the Nova-T unless I install openpli?

Which is better, VIX or openpli?

Bear in mind, I don't have the box yet, it's on its way. I have never used Linux in my life. All I know is Windows.

vix 1.3 does not support nova-t, it will be implemented in version 1.4, however openpli 2.0 beta has full support and in my opinion is an excellent image with great support.

dnme · 09-01-2011 12:11AM

Thanks stanley, I'll go ahead and get a Nova-T so.

jgc115 · 09-01-2011 11:42AM

Anyone know how to mount an external windows NTFS USB 500G drive on the Vu+ Duo running Vix 1.3?
p.s. - I already have an internal HDD mounted and working fine, but I'd also love to use this external HDD to read and write for timeshifting and recording etc.

Thanks in advance - jgc115

stanley1 · 09-01-2011 11:47AM

You need to format it in fat32 or linux ext3, if you can see it in device manager you can format it there in ext3.

jgc115 · 09-01-2011 12:36PM

stanley1 wrote: »

You need to format it in fat32 or linux ext3, if you can see it in device manager you can format it there in ext3.

Read this somewhere on the net - just wondering if someone has tried it?

"mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/hdd/
and now read and write perfectly"

Problem with this is I don't know what drive it is as the device manager doesn't see it when I connect it to any of the USB's. Also I'm assuming the ntfs-3g diver is already loaded in VIX?

kierank01 · 09-01-2011 02:43PM

jgc115 wrote: »

Read this somewhere on the net - just wondering if someone has tried it?

"mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/hdd/
and now read and write perfectly"

Problem with this is I don't know what drive it is as the device manager doesn't see it when I connect it to any of the USB's. Also I'm assuming the ntfs-3g diver is already loaded in VIX?

My box hasn't arrived yet, but if you can get up a command window, and run dmesg shortly after you plug in the drive, it should show what device it is labeled as.

Just wondering why you don't want to/can't use the internal hdd for timeshifting/recording?
The reason I paid ~400 euro for this box, is because I wouldn't have to use an extrernal hdd to record.

jgc115 · 09-01-2011 04:31PM

kierank01 wrote: »

My box hasn't arrived yet, but if you can get up a command window, and run dmesg shortly after you plug in the drive, it should show what device it is labeled as.

Just wondering why you don't want to/can't use the internal hdd for timeshifting/recording?
The reason I paid ~400 euro for this box, is because I wouldn't have to use an extrernal hdd to record.

Thanks, that worked and it found it. Also like to correct my earlier post, this box does support an NTFS drive as I can now see the external NTFS drive in the devices manager - You wont be disappointed with this box, it is fantastic and the Vix image is brilliant as well.

BTW - I can and I do use the internal HDD for everything (recording etc.) but that's what the vuplus is all about - trying different things and so far sooo.. very good.

dnme · 10-01-2011 10:27AM

Folks,

Box just arrived. I have located the VIX image here thanks to an earlier post. But there are two downloads...
an NFI file and a Zip file.

Can anyone explain this to me. What are the two files? Which one do I d/l? Is it just a matter of placing on the root of a fat32 USB stick and presenting to the unit?

Many thanks and sorry of this has already been covered but I could not find it.

Robxxx7 · 10-01-2011 11:41AM

dnme wrote: »

Folks,

Box just arrived. I have located the VIX image here thanks to an earlier post. But there are two downloads...
an NFI file and a Zip file.

Can anyone explain this to me. What are the two files? Which one do I d/l? Is it just a matter of placing on the root of a fat32 USB stick and presenting to the unit?

Many thanks and sorry of this has already been covered but I could not find it.

The ZIP file will just be a compressed 'image' of the NFI file, so you can download either one.

If you download the ZIP version (should be smaller in size) compared to NFI version then extract the file on your PC then copy the resulting NFI file to your USB stick.

RogerThis · 10-01-2011 01:22PM

Robxxx7 wrote: »

The ZIP file will just be a compressed 'image' of the NFI file, so you can download either one.

If you download the ZIP version (should be smaller in size) compared to NFI version then extract the file on your PC then copy the resulting NFI file to your USB stick.

That's just wrong!

You need to download the the zip file, unzip the vuplus folder onto a usb key, insert the usb into the front usb slot and turn on your machine.

Robxxx7 · 10-01-2011 01:56PM

RogerThis wrote: »

That's just wrong!

You need to download the the zip file, unzip the vuplus folder onto a usb key, insert the usb into the front usb slot and turn on your machine.

Nice

vu+ duo

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