[clug] Which USB dual DVB-T works with f11/mythtv?

David Cottrill cottrill.david at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 22:57:27 MST 2009


Where did you find the blob? There is a good chance I'll have to track
it down myself.
Thanks,
David

On Saturday, November 14, 2009, Sam Couter <sam at couter.id.au> wrote:
> Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
>> I finally decided to buy a "Haupauge WinTV-Nova-TD Stick". I found many
>> good linux reports.
>>
>> It proved to work well (so far), no special manual adjustments beyond
>>       - installing the latest firmware file in /lib/firmware
>>       - activating the lna (not sure if this model needs this option)
>>
>> Just under $100 from ebay.
>>
>> Thanks all
>
> I also had the same problem, my existing PCI dual tuner died. I
> eventually settled on a KWorld USB Dual DVB-T TV Stick (DVB-T 399U) for
> less than $100 including delivery from mwave.com.au (plug: I'm a happy
> customer, they got the order to me even though I stuffed up the delivery
> address).
>
> Debian doesn't ship the 2.6.32 kernels yet because they haven't been
> released, so I needed to download and build the latest v4l-dvb modules
> which wasn't at all difficult. Also needs a firmware blob which was a
> bit harder to find.
>
> Works great, highly recommended.
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