David Whyte wrote:

I use 2 Avermedia 771's in my box with no problems.  I can't tune SBS,
but I don't get SBS anywhere in the house even on conventional TV's.

I wish I could figure out how to get it installed and working properly. It's in my secondary frontend/backend at the moment (operating as a backend fine, though the card won't tune so the backend is left down to ensure that it's not used) happily presenting /dev/dvb/adapter0 entries, showing the following in "dmesg" output...

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:01:05.0, irq: 10, latency: 132, mmio: 0xfe000000
bttv0: detected: AverMedia AverTV DVB-T [card=124], PCI subsystem ID is 1461:076
1
bttv0: using: AverMedia AverTV DVB-T 761 [card=124,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=009d00cd [init]
bttv0: using tuner=-1
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
bttv0: add subdevice "remote0"
bttv0: add subdevice "dvb0"
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea642
0,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951),ta8874z
ir-kbd-gpio: bttv IR (card=124) detected at pci-0000:01:05.0/ir0


... but when I go to tune to it, all I get is

mythfe2 scan # ./scan dvb-t/au-vic-Selby
scanning dvb-t/au-vic-Selby
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
initial transponder 662500000 1 3 9 3 1 1 0
initial transponder 620500000 1 2 9 3 1 2 0
initial transponder 641500000 1 3 9 3 1 1 0
initial transponder 711500000 1 3 9 3 1 1 0
initial transponder 683500000 1 2 9 3 1 2 0
>>> tune to:
662500000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_AUTO:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0010
>>> tune to:
620500000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_AUTO:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0010

...and so on and so forth. Googling for "filter timeout pid 0x0011" yeilds lots of results - most of the in languages other than English which Google doesn't understand either, many of them referring to DVB-S as well... Yes, the frequencies are correct - it works fine on the the Nova-T in the main backend which records SDTV nicely.

I too am using dual Avermedia 771s with no problems (and yes I am also in Melbourne, getting all stations perfectly). I don't remember having any troubles getting the avermedias working. I use linuxtv-dvb 1.1.1 for the drivers, not the standard drivers that come with FC2 maybe that is the difference.

I found it difficult to set them up with a stock FC2 install (using
Jarods guide) but the main problem was my lack of linux knowlegde.  A
linux savvy mate helped me and it is working fine now.

Where did you go wrong? This one really has me stumped, and with the addition of ABC 2 to the list of channels that seems to have stuff pop up that I want to record (albeit repeated ad-nauseum) the second card would be really useful around now... :)

I don't like the idea of HD yet.  I don't have the horsepower, or the
storage capacity for it at the moment.  SD Digital looks great so I am
happy.

Never got it to work here properly either... the Nova-T either doesn't like HDTV or the PC is too slow (probably the RAM which was scrounged up from older machines) to handle the data - it skips and jumps like mad.

I am thinking of getting a third avermedia in the near future.

Either you watch a damned lot of television or you don't live in Australia... :) With only 5 FTA channels (7 if you include SBS News and ABC 2 - though I'm yet to see anything worth recording on SBS News sinceI only speak English) there isn't enough around to record.

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