[mythtv] DVB cards that support Terrestrial and Cable

[Michael T. Dean]

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/516174#516174


On 05/04/2012 01:56 PM, Scott Moncrieff wrote:
> The developer of the driver apparently said this about the problem
> " the driver use the new DVB-v5-API. It use a frontend pro tuner (not all
> apps using the right call to switch between dvb-c and dvb-t - i.e. mythtv)."
> Does this help? There is a thread about this on the ubuntu forum
> On May 3, 2012 12:30 PM, "Scott Moncrieff"<scottcmoncrieff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I could use a fix for this if you have one. Have you got a way of
>> switching the card to DVB-T?
>>
>> I have the card working on a system running 11.10 but just installed
>> 12.04 (on another drive) and built the LinuxTV drivers and it doesn't
>> see it anymore.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Martin Smith<msmith999999 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been playing with Terratec Cinergy T cards. The second tuner on
>>> these supports DVB-T and DVB-C but the drxk driver always initializes
>>> them as DVB-C. I have a UK Freeview setup so when myth tries to tune
>>> the card it doesn't work as it uses the wrong set of parameters.
>>>
>>> I've come up with 3 possible approaches to get round this:
>>>
>>> 1.) Modify myth so it can set the tuner type as part of tuning
>>> 2.) Modify the driver so it can be told which standard to initialize with
>>> 3.) Run a utility at startup that switches the card to DVB-T
>>>
>>> 3.) is an easy hack that will solve my problem. As the others involve
>>> more work and would probably mean hassle in getting my employer to
>>> assign copyright I thought I'd see what people think about this before
>>> diving into the code.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>