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

[Andrew Janke]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 09:29, Eyal Lebedinsky<eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
> I need to add an external tuner and while I see many advertised online in
> Australia (and is mailbox catalogue drops) it is difficult to say which
> ones work out-of-the-box in this setup.
>
> My Fedora 11 is running kernel 2.6.29.6.

I have a:

Pinnacle nano USB DVB stick. (on the end of a 6m USB cable hanging in
the window.)

   http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=56&bid=2&sid=34947

The specific bit to look for seems to be '73E'. This is what show up
in dmesg when you plug it in. (it needs a firmware file).

[327731.988672] dvb-usb: Pinnacle PCTV 73e successfully deinitialized
and disconnected.
[327732.212266] usb 2-3.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 11
[327732.321680] usb 2-3.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[327732.322090] dvb-usb: found a 'Pinnacle PCTV 73e' in cold state,
will try to load a firmware
[327732.322098] usb 2-3.2: firmware: requesting dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw
[327732.424384] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file
'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw'
[327732.642368] dib0700: firmware started successfully.
[327733.144173] dvb-usb: found a 'Pinnacle PCTV 73e' in warm state.
[327733.144272] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream
to the software demuxer.
[327733.144638] DVB: registering new adapter (Pinnacle PCTV 73e)
[327733.427733] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (DiBcom 7000PC)...
[327733.617984] DiB0070: successfully identified
[327733.618640] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-3/2-3.2/input/input13
[327733.645450] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 50 msecs.
[327733.645458] dvb-usb: Pinnacle PCTV 73e successfully initialized
and connected.

Note that it has an internal IR device (and remote) that I have made
work but don't use routinely (if at all). I have read various reports
that this stick has some internal signal boosting thing that doesn't?
work with the linux version but I haven't seemed to have such a
problem. I can easily tune HD DVB streams using the piddly little
stick antenna that came with it hanging up in the window.


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