[mythtv] DVB cards that support Terrestrial and Cable

[Scott Moncrieff]

Thanks. Sorry for spamming the dev mailing list.
On May 4, 2012 7:17 PM, "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:

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> On 05/04/2012 01:56 PM, Scott Moncrieff wrote:
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>> The developer of the driver apparently said this about the problem
>> " the driver use the new DVB-v5-API. It use a frontend pro tuner (not all
>> apps using the right call to switch between dvb-c and dvb-t - i.e.
>> mythtv)."
>> Does this help? There is a thread about this on the ubuntu forum
>> On May 3, 2012 12:30 PM, "Scott Moncrieff"<scottcmoncrieff@**gmail.com<scottcmoncrieff at gmail.com>
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>> wrote:
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>>  I could use a fix for this if you have one. Have you got a way of
>>> switching the card to DVB-T?
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>>> I have the card working on a system running 11.10 but just installed
>>> 12.04 (on another drive) and built the LinuxTV drivers and it doesn't
>>> see it anymore.
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>>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Martin Smith<msmith999999 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've been playing with Terratec Cinergy T cards. The second tuner on
>>>> these supports DVB-T and DVB-C but the drxk driver always initializes
>>>> them as DVB-C. I have a UK Freeview setup so when myth tries to tune
>>>> the card it doesn't work as it uses the wrong set of parameters.
>>>>
>>>> I've come up with 3 possible approaches to get round this:
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>>>> 1.) Modify myth so it can set the tuner type as part of tuning
>>>> 2.) Modify the driver so it can be told which standard to initialize
>>>> with
>>>> 3.) Run a utility at startup that switches the card to DVB-T
>>>>
>>>> 3.) is an easy hack that will solve my problem. As the others involve
>>>> more work and would probably mean hassle in getting my employer to
>>>> assign copyright I thought I'd see what people think about this before
>>>> diving into the code.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>>
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