[mythtv-users] USB DVB-T2 tuners

[Alistair Grant]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Ian Oliver <lists at foxhill.co.uk> wrote:
> I've been using four Hauppauge Nove-T DVB-T sticks for many years, and
> they have been rock solid.
>
> I'm now building a new backend and want to go HD.
>
> 1) The setup when mixing SD and HD tuners looked tricky (UK Freeview if
> it matters) but maybe I should bite the bullet and just do it?
> 2) I have one Hauppauge PCTV 290e, and went to buy more, but they have
> been replaced with the 292e. Is the 290e available anywhere still?
> 3) I've seen reports on this list regards issues with the 292e and
> mythtv. Have these been fixed in the latest 14.04 LTS or should I just
> avoid the 292e?
> 4) Any other USB DVB-T2 tuners that I should look at?
> 5) Or are any of the quad tuner PCI-e cards worth looking at? I was
> one, and did some searching, but people seemed to be having issues.
> (Oh, and I only have one PCI-e slot!).

I can't comment on the individual tuners, however if you are yet to
build the backend machine, and assuming it will be running Linux, it
will be safer for now to stick with USB2 ports, which use the eHCI
drivers.

There are known issues with some Intel USB3 controllers (which use the
xHCI drivers).  There are some fixes proposed for the 4.0 kernel which
will hopefully resolve most of these issues.  There may still be
interoperability issues between the individual device driver and xHCI,
e.g. the cx231xx driver appears to still have issues on xHCI even with
the 4.0 proposed fixes (although it is *much* better).

HTH,
Alistair