[mythtv-users] Recommendations for a good DVB-C card?

[Peter Andersson]

Well, i can't tell you anything about the technotrend C-1501 but i do have two C-1500. And they work very well except that some channels do get "blocky" image for some reason. I know its not a bitrate issue since i can record hd channels with far higher bitrate without problems. So to sum things up, think twice before buying a C-1500. When it works it works very well and the linux drivers are superb (better than the "official" windows drivers in fact). But for some strange reason the card has problems tuning some channels.
 
Good luck!
 
/Peter



> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:31:11 +0100> From: guillaume.ml at gmail.com> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Recommendations for a good DVB-C card?> > Hello,> > I bought recently one "satelco easy watch dvb-c" and it works fine.> The second has just been shipped yesterday :)> My kernel is 2.6.24.2, and mythtv : 0.20.2.> > Regards> Guillaume> > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Torbjörn Jansson> <torbjorn.jansson at gmail.com> wrote:> > hello all.> > can someone recommend a good dvb-c card? one that actually works and> > works really well.> >> > the card i have now is an old technotrend full featured card pci rev> > 2.1 (linux mods dvb-ttpci and ves1820) and i've had many problems with> > it since i bought it some years ago.> >> > currently i get bad signal on some channels, some channels are worse> > than others and it results in blocky recordings and sometimes its so> > bad that the frontend freezes several times during playback.> > i've had bad power supplies causing bad signal, bad antenna cables> > (was a premade cable i bought in a store, the shield in the connector> > was barely connected to the shielding in the cable causing the cable> > to pickup noise)> >> > another problem i have is that the card stops giving any data from> > time to time causing zero length recordings, and this i've had to> > "fix" this by killing the backend once a day and reloading the drivers> > (done from crontab)> >> > i've had enough of all the problems and i'm looking into getting a new> > card that hopefully is more stable, better and hopefully gets rid of> > the last bad signal problems.> >> > (i have a dvb-c box that gets perfect signal so it must be a problem> > related to the card, and not bad antenna cable(s))> >> >> > i was considering a "Technotrend Budget C-1501" but don't know if this> > is supported under linux and the C-1500 card appears to not be sold> > anymore.> > any other advice/recommendations to what card to get?> > _______________________________________________> > mythtv-users mailing list> > mythtv-users at mythtv.org> > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users> >> _______________________________________________> mythtv-users mailing list> mythtv-users at mythtv.org> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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