I have a Terratec Cinergy 400 SAA7134 tuner card working with MythTv. I
had a lot of issues getting it to work properly. First I had problems
with channel tuning, but once you know how to fill them (easiest way is
to set them via mythweb in Hz) I ran into sound issues. When using the
saa7134 internal sound decoder I got a lot of static when switching
channels, which could cause speaker damage, so I went for the external
sound cable but now I don't have very good sound quality and it is more
difficult to set up (default sound card values needed e.g.).<br>
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The things I'm missing is: the saa7134 uses software encoding, so
recording and viewing at the same time doesn't work very well. And I
can't record two shows at a time. Which occured more during the past
half year than I would expect.<br>
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Tvtime is very nice to test the saa7134 card, mainly because automatic channel scanning works<br>
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I'm thinking about getting a PVR 500 with 2 tuners.<br>
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Martijn (also from the Netherlands)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">NINjak</b> <<a href="mailto:ninjak@ss-nl.com">ninjak@ss-nl.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello all,<br><br>I need some help to fix things or some info to get the right Haupage card.<br><br>I was building and installing my first mythTV setup and I used an Pinnacle<br>PCTV (saa7134 chipset) tv card. The Pinnacle card refused to work but
<br>after a while, finaly it did. Well "worked" is a big word because I only<br>saw one channel (BBC) but I was not able to zap through the other(?)<br>channels. To get the channels tuned is kinda hard or the card is/was not
<br>working correctly. Before I got the BBC channel (with mythTV) I try'd some<br>other settings with tvtime but, at that time, that did not help me much<br>(did lot's of lsmod, rmmod and modprobe to get/find the right card
<br>settings).<br><br>To test some things differently I took an other HD and installed w*nd*ws<br>on that setup to see if the card/drivers where working correctly (maybe<br>the pinnacle card got some problems with linux). In w*nd*ws the card is
<br>reporting an (irq) error and did not (yet) work at all while with mythTV I<br>could see at least 1 channel ;) I will try some other things to solve the<br>IRQ problem and maybe then the card will respond in linux better than just
<br>that one BBC channel.<br><br>- Are there people on this list got/had the same problems with the<br>Pinnacle or other brand, with the SAA7134 chipset, TV-card ?<br>- Can it be fixed ?<br>- If I take an Haupage PVR-x50 card, and leave the SAA7134 card for what
<br>it is, wich one should I get ? and does the MCE versions work correctly<br>with linux ?<br><br>I was thinking to get an Haugpage PVR-150 (with remote, so no MCE version)<br>but I could not see if that's the best choice. I wont be needing a second
<br>one or a PVR-500 because when all works well I will also be using a DVB-S<br>in the near future. If someone got some nice info what DVB-S to get i<br>would be very happy.<br><br>To give you some extra info:<br>I live in the Netherlands (europe), was using the latest kernel (kernel,
<br>did see the tv-card correctly), AMD XP2600+, VIA KT400a chipset, 512Mb,<br>Nvidia GF4 and a SB Live (onboard, sounds bad).<br><br>Thanks in advance....<br><br>Cya,<br><br>NINjak<br><br>_______________________________________________
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