[mythtv-users] DVBSky S952 or TBS 6902 or neither

Paul Gardiner lists at glidos.net
Tue Jan 14 10:31:55 UTC 2020


On 14/01/2020 10:19, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> On 13/01/2020 14:35, John wrote:
>> On 13/01/2020 12:21, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:44:15 +0000, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'm looking to replace an old Haupauge Single tuner PCI card with a 
>>>> Dual
>>>> tuner PCIe card. Can anyone recommend either of the above for use with
>>>> MythTV? My old Haupauge card, although not perfect has been working for
>>>> many years, with regular kernel updates, using the built in drivers, so
>>>> I don't want the backward step of having to explicitly build drivers
>>>> each kernel update, hence the neither possibility.
>>> The TBS6902 is a fairly new card so it uses a newer chipset and needs
>>> the V4L based TBS drivers.  So you would have to compile them for each
>>> kernel update.
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>>
>> I am currently using a DVBSky S950 V3 which has behaved faultlessly 
>> for 5 years.
>>
>> I have tried both the DVBSky S952v3 and the TBS6902 and have had 
>> occasional bad recordings from both. (First tuning after power on 
>> failing.)
>>
>> The DVBSky cards are supported in the kernel.
> 
> Thank you both. That's exactly the sort of information I was hoping for. 
> The S950C seems to still be available, which apparently uses the same 
> chips. Looks to be the same card, but with a CI Common Interface Slot. 
> Only a single tuner, but PCIe and increased reliability was mainly what 
> I was looking for.

Actually no. Looks like I picked up an old web link or narrowly missed 
getting the last one in stock.

John, with the S952v3, are you saying, it sometimes doesn't power up in 
a working state, but if it does it remains stable?

Cheers,
	Paul.


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