[linux-dvb] Advice needed

[linux-dvb] Advice needed

[Luis Cidoncha]

Sorry for the annoying question.

I have a Nova T-500, but due to the "lose one tuner" problem, I'm
thinking of buying a new card for my "production" system, while
continuing testing the Nova T-500 in other machine.

I'd like to know which DVB-T dual (record two channels at once) PCI or
PCI-E cards are fully supported and reliable. I have looked at the
wiki, but I could use a little of first hand info here.

Also, does the usb dvb-t devices (stick, boxes, ...) works well with a
standard aerial (not the ones this products usually include)? Because
if they do, I can buy a pair of USB sticks instead.

Sorry for the newbie question and my bad english, but I really need a
working card.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: [linux-dvb] Advice needed

[Patrik Hansson]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Luis Cidoncha <luis.cidoncha@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the annoying question.
>
>  I have a Nova T-500, but due to the "lose one tuner" problem, I'm
>  thinking of buying a new card for my "production" system, while
>  continuing testing the Nova T-500 in other machine.
>
>  I'd like to know which DVB-T dual (record two channels at once) PCI or
>  PCI-E cards are fully supported and reliable. I have looked at the
>  wiki, but I could use a little of first hand info here.
>
>  Also, does the usb dvb-t devices (stick, boxes, ...) works well with a
>  standard aerial (not the ones this products usually include)? Because
>  if they do, I can buy a pair of USB sticks instead.
>
>  Sorry for the newbie question and my bad english, but I really need a
>  working card.
>
>  Thanks in advance.
>
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I´m also thinking the same. Maybe not for myself but i built a system
for a friend with the nova-t and she is not all that happy ;)
So anyone have a suggestion please speak up.

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Re: [linux-dvb] Advice needed

[Adam Nielsen]

 >> I'd like to know which DVB-T dual (record two channels at once) PCI
 >> or PCI-E cards are fully supported and reliable. I have looked at the
 >> wiki, but I could use a little of first hand info here.

 > I´m also thinking the same. Maybe not for myself but i built a system
 > for a friend with the nova-t and she is not all that happy ;)
 > So anyone have a suggestion please speak up.

Well FWIW I've been using a DViCO Dual Digital 4 for the last few weeks 
and it seems fine.  It's a single low-profile PCI card, but internally 
it appears as two USB devices attached to a Via USB controller.

Unfortunately it's much less sensitive to signal levels and I can't 
watch two channels that work fine with my old Hauppauge and single-tuner 
DViCO card.  There's no shielding around the aerial input on the card, 
but I don't know whether that's why.

At any rate for the channels that have enough signal strength, this card 
seems fine recording SD or HD on one or both tuners at the same time. 
You will have to be careful though, as it looks like there's a new 
revision of this card floating around that isn't supported at all by 
Linux at the moment (see previous forum posts about the Dual Digital 4.) 
  I'm not aware of any way of finding out the revision without looking 
at the card itself.

Cheers,
Adam.

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[linux-dvb] Advice needed

[Luis Cidoncha]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen@shikadi.net> wrote:

 >
 >  Well FWIW I've been using a DViCO Dual Digital 4 for the last few weeks
 >  and it seems fine.  It's a single low-profile PCI card, but internally
 >  it appears as two USB devices attached to a Via USB controller.
 >

 The DViCO would be great for me, but unfortunately I don't know any
 place in my country (Spain) that sells them. Does anyone from Europe
 know a place where I can buy a DViCO Dual Digital 4? (The ones in the
 DViCO page doesn't offer any PCI card, or at least I wasn't able to
 find them)

 Thanks.



-- 
"I don't need a plan, just a goal. The rest will follow on its own"

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Re: [linux-dvb] Advice needed

[Tom]

Hi Luis,

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:24:50AM +0100, Luis Cidoncha wrote:

>  The DViCO would be great for me, but unfortunately I don't know any
>  place in my country (Spain) that sells them. Does anyone from Europe
>  know a place where I can buy a DViCO Dual Digital 4?

I had the same problem until I found this (german page with product details):
http://www.hdd-player.de/product_info.php?language=de&info=p508_Dvico-FusionHDTV-DVB-T-Dual-Digital-4.html

The englisch / spanish pages show a lack of product details.

I called them yesterday and was told they still had some DD4 (Rev.1) in
stock. As my order has not been delivered yet I cannot confirm this.


Regards, Tom

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