[mythtv-users] Anyone using a TBS6985?

[Jelte Veldstra]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Mark Gardner <Mark at thegardners.me.uk> wrote:
> I have read several success stories with the TBS6984 DVB-S2 Quad Tuner,
> but it has been replaced by the TBS6985. The manufacturer's website says
> the 6985 is compatible with MythTV, but I am unable to find any success
> stories....
>
> Can anyone put my mind at rest please?
>

No experience with the TBS products. I read about the drivers provided
by TBS can be a pain to work with as they're maintained by them and
are not open source. On the other hand when it works for your kernel
then you're set.

Personally I have been a happy user of the Digital Devices Cine S2 v5
PCI-e DVB-S2 twin adapter. The kernel recognized it without manually
compiling drivers, but then under MythTV multirec would fail. Oliver
Endriss is a developer who created a special branche for these devices
and using his drivers multirec works great too. Digital devices now
sells v6 and v6.5 of these products (the later revisions can be
configured as quad tunercards as well), but as far as I can see using
the drivers of Oliver Endriss all revisions should work well under
Linux. Being such a happy user I ordered a DVB-C/T combo PCI-e adapter
of Digital Devices as well. Hopefully it comes in later this week so I
can use it on my DVB-C recordings.