[mythtv-users] Avermedia DVB-T 771 working

[Bill Coghill]

Clyde Stubbs wrote:

>In case anyone else has been attracted by the new Avermedia DVB-T 771
>terrestrial digital TV card, I'm delighted to say I now have it working
>under Myth. Largely thanks to Wolfram Joost, there is a working driver
>for it - should be in the LinuxTV CVS tree soon, but right now you
>can get it from http://www.frokaschwei.net/avtv771/avermedia.html -
>you'll also need a recent CVS version of the DVB tree.
>
>The particularly attractive features of the DVB-T 771 are price (around
>1/3rd what I paid just a few months ago for a Nebula DigiTV card), the
>fact that it is a low-profile PCI card (albeit supplied without a low-profile
>bracket, but a little metalwork fixes that) and has a respectable
>bundled remote control. The remote interface has not yet been reverse-
>engineered, but the supplied IR receiver can be turned into an IRMAN type
>serial receiver quite readily.
>
>It also has an S-Video/Composite analog input, which I haven't yet
>tested, but should work fine since it's using a bog-standard BT878.
>
>Clyde
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In Australia (and elsewhere ?) this card is known as a AVerTV DVB-T 
card.  I have had Myth running on it for about three months.  After a 
lot of mucking about with the DVB drivers (moving from the buggy Linux 
TV dvb to DVB-Kernel drivers fixed a lot of instability issues - I might 
try the Linux TV drivers again) I eventually got it stable enough to act 
as the primary card for my recordings.

Still working on the analogue ins - can get signal in XAWTV, but its 
like its in the wrong mode as I get monochrome offset interlacing.  Very 
frustrating.

I would like to get the on-board IR reception running as the remote is 
quite nice.

bill.