[mythtv-users] PCIe DVB-S2 choices

[Ken Smith]

Ken Smith via mythtv-users wrote:
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> Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> ** Reply to message from Ken Smith <kens at kensnet.org> on Mon, 20 Jun 
>> 2022
>> 17:17:04 +0100
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>>> Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 13:29:31 +0100, you wrote:
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>>>>> Short Story: Which PCIe DVB-S2 cards are people having success with?
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>>>> Both work well for me on Ubuntu 20.04.  They use a custom version of
>>>> the Linux DVB media tree:
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>>>> https://github.com/tbsdtv/linux_media/wiki
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>>> After not having much success with the TBS driver about 2 years ago i
>>> just tried again using the source from git. It built without a problem
>>> on a 5.4 kernel but not on a 5.17 one.

>>> Thank you for the suggestion.
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>>> Ken
>> I presume you are using Fedora 36 or similar to get a 5.17 kernel.  I
>> just tried compiling on Fedora 36 in VirtualBox and it updated to a 5.18
>> kernel and failed to compile with an error about an incompatible pointer
>> type:
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>>   In any case, I have
>> posted an issue about the problem:
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>> https://github.com/tbsdtv/linux_media/issues/286
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> That's the same error I got on 5.17.
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To close out this thread in case anyone needs to look back over it. Now 
that I have managed to get the TBS Media Driver tree to build I have 
switched to using TBS cards and stopped using the HVR-5525

Thank you everyone

Ken

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