[mythtv-users] mythtv 0.2 and Freecom DVB USB

Julien Fourgeaud julien.fourgeaud at gmail.com
Wed Oct 18 12:14:25 UTC 2006


On 10/18/06, Matthew McClement <mythtv at macker.co.uk> wrote:
> Julien Fourgeaud wrote:
> > On 10/18/06, Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hey what freecom card do you have? Model? where did you buy it? I need
> >> to get one but I am worried that I will accidentally pick one up that
> >> is not supported.. there are several versions of the freecom devices.
> >
> > I have that one: http://www.freecom.com/ecProduct_detail.asp?ID=2234
> > (ID: 14aa:0226)
> >
> > It works well with linux, was really easy to set up.
>
> Just as a word of warning, the newer Freecom sticks need rounded
> frequencies(to the nearest Mhz) to tune successfully in the UK. If you
> have any other DVB tuners in your machine you probably won't be able to
> share tuning tables with the cards.
>
> The only way I could figure out how to force Myth to use separate tuning
> tables for the cards was to have two separate sources for the inputs
> which made a mess of the channel numbering and MythWeb's channel view.
> Recording and conflict resolution still seemed to work fine though.
>
> If you're looking for a USB tuner, you might want to consider the KWorld
> DVB-T 300U. Not as small as the Freecom but it works under Linux, uses a
> software pid filter so the entire transport stream can be read and it's
> cheaper.
>
> Matt
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Matt: Thanks for the info, for now the freecom is the only tuner I have.
Where can I check if the frequencies are rounded up or not?

Here is what I get from dvbscan for one of the channels:

YLE TV1:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:
TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:17

I live in Finland.

Andrew: I'm recompiling using the overlay, let's see if it makes a difference...

Jul


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