[mythtv-users] Anyone tested the DVB-T2 dual tuner TBS6280?

Harald Gustafsson hgu1972 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 16 10:58:29 UTC 2011


On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
>>Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:08:30 +0300
>>From: Turbosight Europe <euro_support at tbsdtv.com>
...
>>also, in case of TBS 6280 there is something else you should know -
>>currently we keep two separate Linux drivers: one that support DVB-T
>>only and another that supports DVB-T2 only. that's because we want
>>more people to test those two drivers before we merge them and it's
>>more efficient to locate the problem in case a customer report such.
>>so, the driver for TBS 6280 you can find on our website supports
>>DVB-T only, but it can be switched to support DVB-T2 very easy. so,
>>single driver that supports DVB-T and DVB-T2 will be released after
>>we're sure both codes are bug-free. so, far feedback we received
>>doesn't reveal any serious bugs and reported problems were fixed -
>>as i mentioned we already have customers in UK that are Linux users
>>and use the card to watch DVB-T2 signal in UK.

OK so this states that the current drivers don't support both DVB-T
and -T2 simultaneously. This is good to know since this would be my
common usage, going to record DVB-T2 on one of the tuners while
recording DVB-T on the other.

/Harald


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