[mythtv-users] Nebula DigiTV advice

[Rob Willett]

Ben,

I have the Nebula card. It does work under 2.6 but I went back to 2.4.24 as
there were too many other things that weren't working. Such as the C compiler
<grin>. The RC doesn't work for me. I contacted Nebula about this a few weeks
ago, I eventually got an e-mail back saying they've passed this onto somebody
else in Nebula. Since then zilch. I have no faith at all they will come back to
me. Their so-called Linux support seems poor, I'm not the first person to
comment on this. The picture quality is OK but not fabulous, though that could
be the card, I suspect not since DVD playback is fine. Oh and take the DigiTV
software and burn it. It's definitely a waste of space and time.

AFAIK LIRC doesn't have any support or patches for the Nebula card. I looked
around a lot but couldn't find anything. Without input from Nebula it'll be
difficult to make it work.

In hindsight I would probably go for one of the Avermedia cards from
www.autdirect.co.uk. They seem cheap and other people have made them work.

Rob.

Quoting Ben Rometsch <ben at solidstategroup.com>:

> Hi There,
> 
> I am planning on putting a mini-ITX Gentoo-based MythTV box together in 
> a few weeks and was just wanting to check that my choices of hardware 
> were good.
> 
> I have a lot of Gentoo and Linux experience, so I am not too worried 
> about this side of things; it's more hardware compatiablity that I am 
> concerned about.
> 
> Having googled and looked through this mailing list, I was thinking that 
> the Nebula DigiTV card would be the one to go for (I am in the UK and so 
> will be able to make use of the free-to-air digital signal). it seems 
> that the DigiTV card works ok under Linux (using the 2.6 
> kernel...correct?). Has anyone had any luck getting the remote control 
> to work? Failing that, are there patches for LIRC? Am I right in saying 
> that the LIRC code does not run too well under 2.6?
> 
> I was going to use a Shuttle XPC SN45G with a Radeon 8500 providing the 
> TV-Out. Again, does anyone have any experience with this hardware? I'm 
> not certain that using TV-Out on the Radeon is going to be all that easy...?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Ben
> 
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