[mythtv-users] DVB-T card

[John Pilkington]

On 10/09/12 08:02, Andre wrote:
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> On 10 Sep 2012, at 07:49, Greg Cope wrote:
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>> On 7 September 2012 17:48, Richard Morton <richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote
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>> If so get PC 290e USB dvbt2 tuner. Otherwise any dvb t USB or pcie tuner indicated as working on Linux TV website.
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>> Anyone have any experience of those in the UK? 290e dvbt2 USB tuners for recording BBC / Freeview HD?
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> Yes, I got one just before the Olympics to take some scheduling away from my satellite tuners. It worked straight off with Ubuntu 12.04 scanned all channels but i deleted everything except the HD channels as that was all I wanted to record.
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> I heard from a friend with one that the driver crashes quite regularly but he's using a much older Kernel and I haven't had any problems at all so far.
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> Andre.
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>> Ta.
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And I have one which works with no problems on a laptop with Scientific 
Linux/CentOS_6, currently on kernel 2.6.32-279.5.2 with a kmdl from 
ATrpms.  I've also used it with the module built from here:

http://git.linuxtv.org/media_build.git.

I rarely use HD but the recordings are fine.

John P