SichboPVR para Linux

SichboPVR está disponible en algunas variantes de Debian x64. Se pueden agregar distribuciones y arquitecturas adicionales si hay suficiente demanda.

Estas son versiones preliminares, pero puedes patearlas. Se configuran repositorios estables, pero aún no existen compilaciones estables; esté atento a las versiones estables en el futuro. Los binarios de Linux se crean a partir del mismo código que Windows, pero la capa de abstracción de mi plataforma aún no está en paridad de características.

Limitaciones actuales:

• Los controles remotos aún no se han agregado.
• No hay control de medios del sistema operativo ni integración de la bandeja del sistema.
• La transmisión de bits Dolby Digital aún no está implementada.
• 'Ejecutar minimizado a la bandeja cuando se inicia el sistema operativo' aún no implementado.

Requerimientos mínimos del sistema:

El cliente (sichbopvr4)
Una GPU que admite decodificación de hardware OpenGL 3.3 y VAAPI, memoria de video de 1GB, RAM de 1GB.

El servidor (sichbopvr4-service)
Prácticamente cualquier instancia de PC o VPS / VM: utiliza muy pocos recursos.

Lamento que esta página solo esté disponible en inglés.

How to install.

1. Add the Sichbo Interactive public key.

   wget -qO- https://sichbopvr.com/releases/sichbointeractive.asc | gpg --dearmor > sichbointeractive.gpg
   sudo install -D -o root -g root -m 644 sichbointeractive.gpg /etc/apt/keyrings/sichbointeractive.gpg
   rm -f sichbointeractive.gpg
               

2. Add the SichboPVR apt repository.
    
    

   Ubuntu

   Mint, Elementary, et al — Mint is reportedly the most stable variant for running SichboPVR.

   Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble)

   sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/sichbointeractive.gpg] https://sichbopvr.com/releases/ubuntu-24.04/test noble main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sichbopvr-test.list'

   Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy)

   sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/sichbointeractive.gpg] https://sichbopvr.com/releases/ubuntu-22.04/test jammy main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sichbopvr-test.list'

   Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal)

   sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/sichbointeractive.gpg] https://sichbopvr.com/releases/ubuntu-20.04/test focal main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sichbopvr-test.list'

   Debian

   (MX 23, et al)

   Debian 12 (Bookworm)

   sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/sichbointeractive.gpg] https://sichbopvr.com/releases/debian-12/test bookworm main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sichbopvr-test.list'

3. Do the usual...

   sudo apt update && sudo apt install sichbopvr

Graphical setup.

The experience is identical to Windows. SichboPVR will be added to your programs menu. Just run it and it'll start the background service and scan in channels. You can also configure it to install as a daemon under Setup > Local TV Server.

Command line setup.

For a server setup over SSH, run:

sichbopvr4-service -configure

By default SichboPVR is locked down to localhost and only works with a SichboPVR GUI running on the same machine. The interactive server "-configure" mode will let you easily change the network settings so that it accepts connections from the internet and also set an initial admin password (a user/password is always required for remote connections.) Once set, use a SichboPVR client on Windows or an X11 Linux machine to finish configuring the server.

General Linux nonsense...

Display drivers. They're generally horrible.

The SichboPVR UI can't function at all or will function unreliably in the following configurations:

• Nvidia Nouveau: Is hopelessly broken and will freeze when multiple OpenGL contexts are created (required by some features) and it will not VAAPI decode. You need to disable/blacklist the Nouveau nvidia driver.
• Nvidia Proprietary: Needs vdpau-va-driver installed, it won't actually work because of a missing vaQuerySurfaceAttributes implementation. Somebody has made fixed builds here. H265/HEVC is not generally supported.
• i965 MESA: Everything appears to work okay for some time and then the driver will inexplicably crash on i965_gpe_utils.c#L1730.
• Older graphics cards: Might render garbage because fragment shaders need recent OpenGL shader features.

Disable/blacklist the Nouveau nvidia driver.

$ sudo bash -c "echo blacklist nouveau > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf"
$ sudo bash -c "echo options nouveau modeset=0 >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf"
$ sudo update-initramfs -u
$ sudo reboot

Tuner drivers.

Avermedia TD-310

$ sudo modprobe dvb-usb-af9035
$ cd /lib/firmware/
$ sudo wget https://github.com/OpenELEC/dvb-firmware/raw/master/firmware/dvb-demod-si2168-02.fw https://github.com/OpenELEC/dvb-firmware/raw/master/firmware/dvb-usb-it9303-01.fw https://github.com/OpenELEC/dvb-firmware/raw/master/firmware/dvb-demod-si2168-b40-01.fw

Insert the tuner
$ dmesg

Should say "'AVerMedia TD310 DVB-T2' successfully initialized and connected"

More notes to come, probably...