criggie at criggie
Oct 6, 2009, 2:57 AM
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matthew pearce wrote:
> Now that Prime is on Freeview I am very interested in getting it
> working. I have an old sky dish (with LMB and coax) that a friend gave
> me. I assume it will be OK for receiving freeview.
Yes - takes a bit of work to mount and aim but its doable.
> However, the problem I have now is; what DVB-S PCI card to buy.
> So here is my
> question; Which is the best to get? (sorry for that question :-) )
> Perhaps a little more specific may help:
> What is the card (DVB-S) with the most features?
> What is the card which works the best 'out-of-the-box' for mythtv?
The old skystar2 is great - just works. Anything else built on the same
chipset will be fine. The TeVii S420 is a PCI card which is supposed to
be just as good and has a loop connector to run to a second DVB-S card.
Lots of web sites saying it works fine in linux kernel 2.6.28 or newer.
> What card is the best value for money?
> Which is the cheapest that works?
> Where is the best place (cheapest) to get these cards? Do any of you sell them?
nicegear.co.nz has the tevii and others.
Just avoid USB based ones - they're just pain.
> I have a PC with a 2.66 GHZ celeron and an 80 and 120GB HDD in it. It
> has a GeForce MX 440 with s-video out which drives the TV. I had a go
> at getting an analogue tuner working, and after a fashion I did, but
> the reception on our rabbit ears is not very good. :-) . Therefore
> Freeview would be nice.
You'll need dvb-s... that box won't cope with dvb-t because terrestrial
is High Def and needs a much better box.
> Is the EPG sent in the satellite data stream, and can 'mythtv' pick it up?
Yes - you run epgsnoop to slurp the data out into a xml file then feed
that to mythfilldatabase.
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