[mythtv-users] Is Kworld Dual DVB-T PCI TV Card compatible with MythTv

Josu Lazkano josu.lazkano at gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 11:39:56 UTC 2010


Hello, I have a USB version of the Kworld dual tuner. I had lots of
problems using both adapters at same time. I have no enought technical
capacity to resolve it. I use to deactivate the EIT active scan.

It would be great to write all experience on the LinuxTV wiki.

Thanks and regards.


2010/9/14 David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Nicolas Will <nico at youplala.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 19:56 +0930, Anthony Rooney wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there a driver for the Kworld device referenced above.
>>
>>
>> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_PCI_Cards#KWorld
>>
>> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/KWorld_DVB-T_PC160-2T
>>
>> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Afatech_AF9015
>>
>> Should work without a problem.
>>
>
>
> Should!
>
> I don't understand how, but there seems to be lots of people that have
> problems with this card (or one of its doppelgangers such as the Peak
> Dual DVB-T card).
>
> On Ubuntu 9.10 I was able to get both tuners working quite reliably
> with the stock drivers included in the restricted drivers package.
> This was version 4.65 of the firmware.
>
> On the weekend (after holding off for the sole purpose of waiting for
> driver stability) I did the upgrade to 10.04.1, following reports that
> the drivers are much more stable given that the stock driver was 4.95
> and there was a downloadable 5.10 version.
>
> I had no such luck.  Channels would take *forever* (read >2 mins) to
> tune with 4.95 and just wouldn't work at all with 5.10.  I ended up
> downloading the 4.65 driver from the Ubuntu 9.10 repository and have
> now got two of the cards working, both with both tuners.
>
> Regardless of who tells the story, it seems that with any version of
> the drivers, you will have trouble if you do warm reboots of your BE.
> I simply get around this by using a UPS to prevent reboots due to
> power-cuts and I simply do a full reboot (i.e. turn the machine off,
> unplug it from the wall, press the power button to drain the
> capacitors, re-plug it in and reboot) after doing any kernel like
> updates.
>
> Moral of the story, I think you will be fine with the card, it just
> might take some faffing around.
>
> Cheers,
> Whytey
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