I also concur - the card is great.
I've got two of them on a backend here and after several weeks of
driver changes, antenna movement, etc. I got them working nicely with
10 channels beamed from 40K away (buffalo to Toronto).
Some general notes:
- the card seems to work best with a audio sampling of 32000 (this is
the default for myth), if you change this you'll get skittering audio.
- Your in for a world of pain if you try and combine them with ivtv
based tuners (like the 250 and 350), I eventually just moved them off
to a dedicated backend to avoid the driver conflicts.
- If you get jumpy video or audio you may need to play with XVMC or
real time threads to smooth out the playback.
- Tuning channels can result in "Green Blocks", I used the advanced
option on the card definition screen to use "Open on Demand". If you
tune a channel and get green blocks - simply exit live tv and reopen
- the blocks will be gone.
David
David
On 30-Jul-05, at 11:17 PM, Chad wrote:
On 7/29/05, Brandon Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks, David for you comments. I found out that I had a bad
firmware file.
I replaced it and the scan started working as it should. I do
have another
question, though... Do the DVB drivers need a stronger signal
than the v4l
drivers? I've noticed that when I use the v4l drivers with xine,
I get
several (about 10) HD channels) in the area. My HDTV also
receives about
that many. However, when I do a scan with the DVB drivers, I only
get one
channel locked and tuned. Does that sound strange? Also, I do
have a
pretty cheesy antenna, but it seems to work well enough for me
right now.
What kind of antenna setups (rotating attic setups, outdoor
stationary
mounts, etc) does everyone have?
Thanks,
Brandon
I struggled quite a bit at first getting my card setup, but it's
really solid once you are done. Most of the info I used is on this
list, but some of it is on the pchdtv.com forums. The channel bit I
ran into to, it seemed that whatever channel I tuned to using
dtvsignal (I think, it's been a bit since I actually used anything but
myth to tune a channel) would be the channel it was stuck on when
scanning. Use Scan for channels using existing transport, it seemed
to be the option that finally worked for me.
Good Luck!
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