[mythtv-users] PCI Express DVB-T card

[Roy Lofthouse]

2009/4/28 Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net>:
> Bill Williamson wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com
>> <mailto:philwild at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    I am going to purchase another DVB-T capture card and after checking
>>    my server last night I noticed that my only spare slot is a PCI
>>    Express slot. Looking through the wiki, I get the feeling this is not
>>    very well supported. Is there any personal experience out there that
>>    differs?
>>
>>    Are USB style capture devices as good as actual cards? My gut feel is
>>    that they just can not be as good given the miniaturisation etc...
>>
>>    '
>>
>>
>> Your only worry with USB is whether or not it supports full multiplex
>> grabbing.  If you look at the PCI cards the chip isn't even the size of a
>> stamp... there's no "not as good" going on.q
>
> I thought I'd heard that generally the USB dongle-type capture cards
> need a stronger signal than PCI cards. That not true?
>
> P.
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I've been using a hauppauge usb dual dvb-t for a few months now... no issues

I have each input set to record two channels at once and it works fine.

I did have to buy an attenuator as the signal was too strong rather
than too weak.