[mythtvnz] What DVB-T cards are people using in NZ?

[Steven Ellis]

On Tue, February 12, 2008 9:36 pm, Richard wrote:
> Yeah, the samples places are just box shifters and the others only want to
> deal in pallet and containers so finding out is hard, but I figure if I
> take
> one of each off deal extreme then I should get lucky with some of them.
> Thing is when you go to get more of anything they are always different
> thru
> there.
>
> I cant see any issues with USB thruput since they usually take the whole
> transponder under windows since that's needed for BDA support apparently,
> so
> the only issues will be if you have to use a hub vs root ports. Since
> there
> are only 3 channels active so far, once multirec is sorted that should be
> 3
> sticks needed, one per channel, but we shall see if that theory pans out I
> guess.


I've had no problems pulling 4 channels off a single device over PCI and I
don't imagine issues over USB. Like Richard I'd advise against using a
Hub.

Personally I'm after a dual tuner PCI-e device as I have spare PCI-e slots
on my units. 3 tuners with 2-3 virtual devices per tuner should resolve
most recording conflicts for DVB-T providing you have the grunt to play
the video.

Additionally I'd go for 1-2 DVB-S for ad-hoc channels, plus a analogue UHF
for Prime assuming they don't move to freeview.

Hmm so 5-6 tuners = Lots of disk... Time to buy more terrabyte drives.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
> [mailto:mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Greg Brackley
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:13 PM
> To: MythTV in NZ
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] What DVB-T cards are people using in NZ?
>
>> From: Richard
>> Im also ordering some of the cheap and nasty USB sticks from china
>> shortly
>
>> to see how they go.
>
> I'd potentially be keen to get in on that if possible. I am keen to get
> three or more dvb-t tuners in my backend machine, but I have run out of
> PCI
> slots.  I have tried buying a few cheap USB sticks from HK/China, but the
> sellers don't tend to know (or care) what chipset they use, and the ones I
> received have poor or no Linux support.
>
> I would like to move to the latest mythtv with multirec over the next few
> months, but wonder about bandwidth issues with USB devices with multirec.
> Does anyone have an idea how many recorders per device would be
> reasonable?
> How many recorders per USB bus?
>
> How are other people looking to solve multiple (say 3-4) recorders?
> Getting
> a motherboard with more PCI slots doesn't seem to be viable. I don't want
> to
> run another backend computer, and the current one is reasonably full.  I
> also have limited USB ports/buses (old Intel 6300ESB chipset).
>
> Greg
>
>
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