DVB tuner card for myth on fedora 10

[mschmidt]

I have a usb Hauppauge HVR 900 tuner card but I cant get it working on fedora 10. So now I have decided to buy a new one, but what should buy. My need is that it shall be a DVB tuner, and fedora 10 shall have a working driver build in. Does anyone have experince with that.

BR
Maritn

[trigpoint]

I have a K-World DVB-T220 card, which works fine with Fedora 10, it gets detected at startup.

I use it with either kaffeine or xine. I get all the DVB channels I should with these apps.

I did get it working with myth tv on fedora 9, spent ages trying mythbuntu & mythdora before I finished up installing it from fedora repos.

Got it all configured, did a scan for channels, and it failed to find most of them. My local transmitter (Sutton Coldfield) was changed last year, the web is full of advice, and rants, about older freeview (UKish for DVB-T) boxes that either need a s/w upgrade or are now bricked.

My own freeview TV now has the channels in 2 groups, with a pagebreak between them. Myth only found the group that had not been renumbered. Couldn't find any info on getting passed this, and getting into databases is not my thing, an aversion that seems to be shared by every other software engineer I know.

Maybe when a few more transmitters are changed mythtv will be fixed, Sutton Coldfield is the first.

[mschmidt]

Thanks fot your reply, I will look at the merket after that card.

[anonymouse]

A quick warning - many DVB-T cards have more than one version on the market, with the same model number and packaging. I know of USB DVB-T sticks that had three variants in as many months. Usually all are supported by Linux fairly quickly, but it can take a few months.

Regarding the problems with the Sutton Coldfield transmitter and some old STBs, this shouldn't affect Linux. I believe the problem was not related to the DVB-T hardware but with the software running in the STB. It's possible MythTV might need an update if it suffers from the same problem - but I would be surprised if it does, and anyway I would expect it to be fixed fairly quickly