Need help identifying DVB-T card for MythTV

I have finally got round to setting up a Myth installation, but I am
having trouble identifying a suitable DBV-T (or DVB-S, as I would
happily swap to a dish) card. I have a Dell Optiplex 745, so card size
won't be an issue, and having looked at the list of supported cards on
the LinuxTV site I thought I would have no problems. But so far, every
card I have investigated is either not digital, not supported, out of
date or impossible to find!

Can some kind souls here tell me what they are using?

On 19/02/2010 08:31, SarahEmmm wrote:
I have finally got round to setting up a Myth installation, but I am
having trouble identifying a suitable DBV-T (or DVB-S, as I would
happily swap to a dish) card. I have a Dell Optiplex 745, so card size
won't be an issue, and having looked at the list of supported cards on
the LinuxTV site I thought I would have no problems. But so far, every
card I have investigated is either not digital, not supported, out of
date or impossible to find!

Can some kind souls here tell me what they are using?
Well I have managed to use a Hauppauge DVB-S Nova-S plus, and they are
available until a short while ago. Most sites seem to suggest there
will be more coming in march.

I have bought tuner cards off Ebay in Germany. Look for the Technisat
Skystar 2, and the Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-T cards. I have used these
since 0.20 and they work fine.

Actually if you use Kernal 2.6.30 then there is support for the Intel
6230 USB stick for DVB-T and the Peak Electronics dual DVB-T tuner.
They are both cheap as chips. I have used the Peak thing on Mythbuntu,
latest version without any jiggery pokery required. The Intel 6230 was
detected as a DVB device but not actually tested by me. It should work
though.

Rob.

On Feb 19, 10:36*am, brushhead
wrote:
On 19/02/2010 08:31, SarahEmmm wrote: I have finally got round to setting up a Myth installation, but I am
having trouble identifying a suitable DBV-T (or DVB-S, as I would
happily swap to a dish) card. I have a Dell Optiplex 745, so card size
won't be an issue, and having looked at the list of supported cards on
the LinuxTV site I thought I would have no problems. But so far, every
card I have investigated is either not digital, not supported, out of
date or impossible to find!

Can some kind souls here tell me what they are using?

Well I have managed to use a Hauppauge DVB-S Nova-S plus, and they are
available until a short while ago. *Most sites seem to suggest there
will be more coming in march.

I have bought tuner cards off Ebay in Germany. *Look for the Technisat
Skystar 2, and the Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-T cards. *I have used these
since 0.20 and they work fine.

Actually if you use Kernal 2.6.30 then there is support for the Intel
6230 USB stick for DVB-T and the Peak Electronics dual DVB-T tuner.
They are both cheap as chips. *I have used the Peak thing on Mythbuntu,
latest version without any jiggery pokery required. *The Intel 6230 was
detected as a DVB device but not actually tested by me. *It should work
though.

Rob.

Oh brilliant! I looked up the Peak one, but there didn't seem to be a
driver for it - do you just use the native support? There's a card on
fleabay which I might get if its cheap, just to try.

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:31:42 -0800 (PST), SarahEmmm
wrote:

I have finally got round to setting up a Myth installation, but I am
having trouble identifying a suitable DBV-T (or DVB-S, as I would
happily swap to a dish) card. I have a Dell Optiplex 745, so card size
won't be an issue, and having looked at the list of supported cards on
the LinuxTV site I thought I would have no problems. But so far, every
card I have investigated is either not digital, not supported, out of
date or impossible to find!

Can some kind souls here tell me what they are using?

WinTV Nova-T, bought on ebay. I have both the PCI card and a USB
stick. Both appear to work fine, as the various web sites predict.

Chris

SarahEmmm wrote:

I have finally got round to setting up a Myth installation, but I am
having trouble identifying a suitable DBV-T (or DVB-S, as I would
happily swap to a dish) card.

I have two Compro Videomate DVB-T200 cards, SAA7134 based, doubt they're
still available new, but they've worked OK for the last 4 years

I'm thinking about DVB-S2 now myself, supposedly the Hauppauge
WinTV-NOVA-HD-S2 works nicely, provided you have a new enough kernel (I
currently run under CentOS 5.x so would have to move to Fedora or
another distro for newer drivers).

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
o.uk...
SarahEmmm wrote:

I'm thinking about DVB-S2 now myself, supposedly the Hauppauge
WinTV-NOVA-HD-S2 works nicely, provided you have a new enough kernel (I
currently run under CentOS 5.x so would have to move to Fedora or another
distro for newer drivers).


My efforts to get that card to work with MythBuntu where not very
successful.

OTOH the card worked with Windows 7 Media Centre without the need to install
any additional drivers codecs etc.

--
Michael Chare

Michael Chare wrote:

"Andy Burns" wrote:

supposedly the Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-HD-S2 works nicely

My efforts to get that card to work with MythBuntu where not very
successful.

Thanks for the warning, what sort of issues? what versions of kernel/myth?

On 19/02/2010 08:31, SarahEmmm wrote:
I have finally got round to setting up a Myth installation, but I am
having trouble identifying a suitable DBV-T (or DVB-S, as I would
happily swap to a dish) card. I have a Dell Optiplex 745, so card size
won't be an issue, and having looked at the list of supported cards on
the LinuxTV site I thought I would have no problems. But so far, every
card I have investigated is either not digital, not supported, out of
date or impossible to find!

Can some kind souls here tell me what they are using?
Peak Electronics dual DVB-T tuner

G

On Feb 19, 10:49*am, Chris Hill wrote:
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:31:42 -0800 (PST), SarahEmmm

wrote:
I have finally got round to setting up a Myth installation, but I am
having trouble identifying a suitable DBV-T (or DVB-S, as I would
happily swap to a dish) card. I have a Dell Optiplex 745, so card size
won't be an issue, and having looked at the list of supported cards on
the LinuxTV site I thought I would have no problems. But so far, every
card I have investigated is either not digital, not supported, out of
date or impossible to find!

Can some kind souls here tell me what they are using?

WinTV Nova-T, bought on ebay. *I have both the PCI card and a USB
stick. *Both appear to work fine, as the various web sites predict.

Chris

Thanks for that info, Chris and brushhead - I've just bought a Nova
off ebay and now have some confidence in playing with it next weekend.