[mythtv-users] [SOLVED-ish] Thinking of moving on from MythTV ... I found the main problem, but still have 292e woes

[Simon Hobson]

Damian <myth at surr.co.uk> wrote:

> I solved my MyhtTV problems last night! :-)
> 
> It turns out that my 4 way TV amplifier had died.

Ah, (almost) the old basic of "check the cables first". Good you've found the problem.



> One thing that is frustrating, but I'm just going to live with it, is the realisation that the HD tuner I bought a year or two ago just doesn't work on Linux. Maybe it would work with some tinkering and manually installing drivers, but we don't value TV content to the same extent as we do film content, so we'll just live with the SD resolution that my two SD USB tuners provide.
> 
> The HD tuner in question is a PCTV TripleStick (292e). I've read that it should work, but it simply doesn't.

Can't help with that, but long term it's worth persevering to get a T2 capable tuner working. It's clear that the plan is for any new muxes to be T2, and to move everything to T2 eventually. So over time, I expect T2 incapable tuners to get fewer and fewer channels - though I imagine they'll keep a core of base channels going for some time.