[mythtv-users] Recommendations for a good DVB-C card?

[Guillaume Membré]

Hello,

I bought recently one "satelco easy watch dvb-c" and it works fine.
The second has just been shipped yesterday :)
My kernel is 2.6.24.2, and mythtv : 0.20.2.

Regards
Guillaume

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Torbjörn Jansson
<torbjorn.jansson at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello all.
>  can someone recommend a good dvb-c card? one that actually works and
>  works really well.
>
>  the card i have now is an old technotrend full featured card pci rev
>  2.1 (linux mods dvb-ttpci and ves1820) and i've had many problems with
>  it since i bought it some years ago.
>
>  currently i get bad signal on some channels, some channels are worse
>  than others and it results in blocky recordings and sometimes its so
>  bad that the frontend freezes several times during playback.
>  i've had bad power supplies causing bad signal, bad antenna cables
>  (was a premade cable i bought in a store, the shield in the connector
>  was barely connected to the shielding in the cable causing the cable
>  to pickup noise)
>
>  another problem i have is that the card stops giving any data from
>  time to time causing zero length recordings, and this i've had to
>  "fix" this by killing the backend once a day and reloading the drivers
>  (done from crontab)
>
>  i've had enough of all the problems and i'm looking into getting a new
>  card that hopefully is more stable, better and hopefully gets rid of
>  the last bad signal problems.
>
>  (i have a dvb-c box that gets perfect signal so it must be a problem
>  related to the card, and not bad antenna cable(s))
>
>
>  i was considering a "Technotrend Budget C-1501" but don't know if this
>  is supported under linux and the C-1500 card appears to not be sold
>  anymore.
>  any other advice/recommendations to what card to get?
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