[mythtv-users] DVB T2 Tuners For UK Freeview.

[Paul Gardiner]

Ian Barton <lists at wilkesley.net> wrote:
>On 18/12/13 18:24, Paul Harrison wrote:
>> This is what TBS say about fixing the missing/broken drivers in there
>> v4l tree -  "currently the only way that to be achieved is patch our
>> driver package to include support for them. in near future we can
>> consider update our V4L tree to the latest, but that's very risky for
>> us, because most of our Linux customers are doing embedded systems
>with
>> our cards, usually they use older kernels and everything in the
>current
>> TBS Linux driver package is very well tested".
>>
>
>That puts a different light on it. I have two other PCI cards and a usb
>
>tuner. It might be easier to go for the USB version and patch my
>kernel. 
>Here is a link to the patch in case anyone finds it useful:
>
>http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0db3fa2741ad8371c21b3a6785416a4afc0cc1d4
>
>It's a very trivial change.

That's probably a good choice. It used to be that mythtv's multirec feature and freeview's hd channels being on a single multiplex, meant that systems with existing dvb-t tuners needed only a single dvb-t2 tuner. Now a single t2 tuner is slightly restrictive in that you cannot simultaneously record bbc 4 hd with any other hd channel, but that's probably livable with.