<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 January 2013 18:55, Jelte Veldstra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jelte.veldstra@gmail.com" target="_blank">jelte.veldstra@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Mark Gardner <<a href="mailto:Mark@thegardners.me.uk">Mark@thegardners.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> I have read several success stories with the TBS6984 DVB-S2 Quad Tuner,<br>
> but it has been replaced by the TBS6985. The manufacturer's website says<br>
> the 6985 is compatible with MythTV, but I am unable to find any success<br>
> stories....<br>
><br>
> Can anyone put my mind at rest please?<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>No experience with the TBS products. I read about the drivers provided<br>
by TBS can be a pain to work with as they're maintained by them and<br>
are not open source. On the other hand when it works for your kernel<br>
then you're set.<br>
<br>
Personally I have been a happy user of the Digital Devices Cine S2 v5<br>
PCI-e DVB-S2 twin adapter. The kernel recognized it without manually<br>
compiling drivers, but then under MythTV multirec would fail. Oliver<br>
Endriss is a developer who created a special branche for these devices<br>
and using his drivers multirec works great too. Digital devices now<br>
sells v6 and v6.5 of these products (the later revisions can be<br>
configured as quad tunercards as well), but as far as I can see using<br>
the drivers of Oliver Endriss all revisions should work well under<br>
Linux. Being such a happy user I ordered a DVB-C/T combo PCI-e adapter<br>
of Digital Devices as well. Hopefully it comes in later this week so I<br>
can use it on my DVB-C recordings.<br></blockquote><div><br>I've got the TBS 6981 (dual tuner), and it's been flawless and would instantly purchase another TBS card without consideration.<br><br>Drivers are kernel specific, so you either need to re-compile on kernel change, or lock yourself on a kernel.<br>
<br>Nothing but praise from me for TBS :)<br></div></div>