[mythtv-users] Can Myth TV record direct from DVB-T/DVB-T2

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 10:37:44 UTC 2009


2009/11/5 Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:15:34 +0000, Richard Evans <rp.evans at tiscali.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> Would I be correct in assuming that I could use some sort of DVB-T tuner
>
>> card, or even a DVB-T2, instead of analogue capture cards. This should
>> allow it to receive and record digital TV without any need to actually
>> encode any video, as the digital TV transmission are obviously already
>> encoded.
>
> Absolutely correct for DVB-T, in fact that's all I do, I have 4 DVB-T
> tuners and record FTA here in Oz. There are a wide range of cheap and
> reliable PCI or USB DVB-T tuners compatible with MythTV.
>
> Regards DVB-T2 - I don't know, not broadcast her in Oz. But I'm sure
> someone for the UK will fill you in soon.

Like everyone else who bought an HD Ready iDTV[1], Freeview box, or
DVB-T card for their PC in the UK, you'll need to buy new DVB-T2
tuners in order to receive HDTV over digital terrestrial when
launched. I'm not aware of any supported DVB-T2 tuners on the market
at the moment. The LinuxTV wiki is worth bookmarking when researching
supported hardware [2]

Recording DVB-T/Freeview is really quite straightforward - after a
channel scan to find your available channels, MythTV can download the
programme guide broadcast over-the-air (so no internet connection
required for this [3]) and record simultaneously from as many tuners
as you have installed. You may quickly find you get recording
conflicts that multirec cannot handle [4], so I would strongly
recommend getting 2 physical DVB-T tuners.

Cheers,
Nick

[1] iDTVs with integrated Freesat can receive HD channels broadcast
over DVB-S (not involving MythTV), but you'll need DVB-S2 tuners when
channels move over to that (DVB-S2 cards are already available)
[2] http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
[3] You can opt to use XMLTV instead to get your TV listings, but this
is currently more cumbersome to configure
[4] multirec allows MythTV to record simultaneously from a number of
channels broadcast on the same multiplex using a single physical tuner

-- 
Nick Morrott

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