DVICO dual express second tuner?

DVICO dual express second tuner?

[Paul Kelly]

Hello all;

I got the latest tree and firmware and successfully brought up a new
DVICO dual express and can tune HD cable.

According to the marketing fluff this card has two tuners and can tune
either two digital HD streams or one analog and one HD stream. 

Can anyone give me any idea how to make it do that? Mythtv only
identifies tuner 0. 

Any information needed will happily be supplied, please ask.

Thanks in advance

PK

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Re: DVICO dual express second tuner?

[Fritz Katz]

"Paul Kelly" wrote Monday, June 30, 2008: 
>  
>  I got the latest tree and firmware and successfully 
>  brought up a new DVICO dual express and can tune HD cable.
>  
>  According to the marketing fluff this card has two 
>  tuners and can tune either two digital HD streams or one 
>  analog and one HD stream. 
>  
>  Can anyone give me any idea how to make it do that? 
>  Mythtv only identifies tuner 0. 
>  
>  Any information needed will happily be supplied, 
>  please ask.
>  
>  Thanks in advance
>  
>  PK
_________________________

Hello Paul Kelly,

  I don't own one myself, but I can point you in the direction of the HCL (Linux Hardware Compatability List):

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php/product/4012/cat/196

  Maybe info here can help you getting the second tuner working:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/DViCO_FusionHDTV_DVB-T_Dual_Digital_Installation

> The "DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Tuner" card has two tuners. 
> One is PCI, the other is USB. You will either need to connect 
> an external USB cable to your card, or use the supplied internal 
> USB cable which connects to your motherboard. This will enable 
> the second tuner and is needed for the remote to function.

Let me know how it works out.

-----------------------
Everyone,

I'm considering getting this el-cheapo card that isn't on the HCL list :

"Sabrent Philips7130 PCI TV Tuner/Video Capture Card"
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=TV-PCIRC&cat=VID

Reviewers using Windoze at NewEgg gave it bad reviews. But maybe it works better for Linux-TV?  What's your experience?

I'm looking for a card that does analog PAL/NTSC/SECAM -- that also works for Linux-TV.

Regards,
-- Fritz Katz
frtzkatz (at) yahoo.com










      

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Re: DVICO dual express second tuner?

[Michael Krufky]

Paul Kelly wrote:
> Hello all;
> 
> I got the latest tree and firmware and successfully brought up a new
> DVICO dual express and can tune HD cable.
> 
> According to the marketing fluff this card has two tuners and can tune
> either two digital HD streams or one analog and one HD stream. 
> 
> Can anyone give me any idea how to make it do that? Mythtv only
> identifies tuner 0. 
> 
> Any information needed will happily be supplied, please ask.
> 
> Thanks in advance

Paul,

There is a bug in the cx23885 driver that prevents us from using both Transport buses at the same time.

stoth is working to fix that bug now -- after the bug is fixed, we'll enable the second transport bus.

I'd expect it to be all fixed within a week or two.

Regards,

Mike

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Re: DVICO dual express second tuner?

[hermann pitton]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 30.06.2008, 15:02 -0700 schrieb Fritz Katz:
> "Paul Kelly" wrote Monday, June 30, 2008: 
> >  
> >  I got the latest tree and firmware and successfully 
> >  brought up a new DVICO dual express and can tune HD cable.
> >  
> >  According to the marketing fluff this card has two 
> >  tuners and can tune either two digital HD streams or one 
> >  analog and one HD stream. 
> >  
> >  Can anyone give me any idea how to make it do that? 
> >  Mythtv only identifies tuner 0. 
> >  
> >  Any information needed will happily be supplied, 
> >  please ask.
> >  
> >  Thanks in advance
> >  
> >  PK
> _________________________
> 
> Hello Paul Kelly,
> 
>   I don't own one myself, but I can point you in the direction of the HCL (Linux Hardware Compatability List):
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php/product/4012/cat/196
> 
>   Maybe info here can help you getting the second tuner working:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/DViCO_FusionHDTV_DVB-T_Dual_Digital_Installation
> 
> > The "DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Tuner" card has two tuners. 
> > One is PCI, the other is USB. You will either need to connect 
> > an external USB cable to your card, or use the supplied internal 
> > USB cable which connects to your motherboard. This will enable 
> > the second tuner and is needed for the remote to function.
> 
> Let me know how it works out.
> 
> -----------------------
> Everyone,
> 
> I'm considering getting this el-cheapo card that isn't on the HCL list :
> 
> "Sabrent Philips7130 PCI TV Tuner/Video Capture Card"
> http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=TV-PCIRC&cat=VID

oh my, this is a historical document.

Are those warnings already valid for all over the US or in California
only?

> 
> Reviewers using Windoze at NewEgg gave it bad reviews. But maybe it works better for Linux-TV?  What's your experience?

It will have US and/or European chips taking most of the remaining
possible profit. But not the newest ones ...

> I'm looking for a card that does analog PAL/NTSC/SECAM -- that also works for Linux-TV.

If you have a good analog cable-tv signal, you might try.
The tuner will do only NTSC and the TV sound is MONO only.

For other inputs are no known restrictions, except you will have to use
the analog audio loop through to the sound card on that saa7130.
No analog to digital audio converters on it.

Cheers,
Hermann

> 
> Regards,
> -- Fritz Katz
> frtzkatz (at) yahoo.com


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Re: DVICO dual express second tuner?

[Paul Kelly]

Thank you for your help. Unfortunately I had already found this one and
tried it. It was very helpful in getting the card to work even though it
was written to support completely different hardware, USB tuner along
with a PCI tuner on a card.  The Dual express does NOT have a USB tuner,
it's actually two separate identical conexant chips on the board only
one of which the linux driver recognizes. Also the Dual Express does not
use the "bluebird" firmware referred to in that howto, that is strictly
for the USB tuner apparently and since it doesn't have one it ignores
it. I actually had to find and download different firmware that it
requested. Using that firmware I can view and record all of the
unencrypted HD cable channels that are available to me. However, I
cannot tune any non-HD content at all.

Thanks again, it's much appreciated.

PK

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 15:02 -0700, Fritz Katz wrote:
> "Paul Kelly" wrote Monday, June 30, 2008: 
> >  
> >  I got the latest tree and firmware and successfully 
> >  brought up a new DVICO dual express and can tune HD cable.
> >  
> >  According to the marketing fluff this card has two 
> >  tuners and can tune either two digital HD streams or one 
> >  analog and one HD stream. 
> >  
> >  Can anyone give me any idea how to make it do that? 
> >  Mythtv only identifies tuner 0. 
> >  
> >  Any information needed will happily be supplied, 
> >  please ask.
> >  
> >  Thanks in advance
> >  
> >  PK
> _________________________
> 
> Hello Paul Kelly,
> 
>   I don't own one myself, but I can point you in the direction of the HCL (Linux Hardware Compatability List):
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php/product/4012/cat/196
> 
>   Maybe info here can help you getting the second tuner working:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/DViCO_FusionHDTV_DVB-T_Dual_Digital_Installation
> 
> > The "DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Tuner" card has two tuners. 
> > One is PCI, the other is USB. You will either need to connect 
> > an external USB cable to your card, or use the supplied internal 
> > USB cable which connects to your motherboard. This will enable 
> > the second tuner and is needed for the remote to function.
> 
> Let me know how it works out.
> 
> -----------------------
> Everyone,
> 
> I'm considering getting this el-cheapo card that isn't on the HCL list :
> 
> "Sabrent Philips7130 PCI TV Tuner/Video Capture Card"
> http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=TV-PCIRC&cat=VID
> 
> Reviewers using Windoze at NewEgg gave it bad reviews. But maybe it works better for Linux-TV?  What's your experience?
> 
> I'm looking for a card that does analog PAL/NTSC/SECAM -- that also works for Linux-TV.
> 
> Regards,
> -- Fritz Katz
> frtzkatz (at) yahoo.com
> 
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