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#68448 22-Sep-2010 09:27

im finally going to be switching to freeview (old house didnt have a UHF aerial), and need to know which card I should buy.

I would like to be able to record two shows at once. and it needs to run under ubuntu and windows (in case i ever switch back to windows). for ubuntu it will be on a mythtv backend and streamed to apple tv/xbmc or mac mini/xbmc. on windows it would be through GBPVR.

for analogue tv the choice was easy, PVR-150, but im not certain what the choice would be for a DVB-T card.

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#383033 22-Sep-2010 09:29

Haupage HVR2200 is what I'm using. No problems here. Should be able to work with Linux...

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#383040 22-Sep-2010 09:41

HVR220- looks good, anyone know the state of the drivers on ubuntu?

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#383044 22-Sep-2010 09:47

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1167640

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#383053 22-Sep-2010 09:55

cheers for that. ill get that card and report back on my success (or failure :))

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#383061 22-Sep-2010 10:01

Get the HVR2200 if you can, Dual DVB-T and Dual Analog. But it is a PCI Express Card.

Otherwise the Nova T 500 (I have one of these) is a Dual DVB-T PCI card. No analog on this one.

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#383065 22-Sep-2010 10:07

if i can get gbpvr tv guide and recordings working on a mac/appletv (through xbmc) i may switch my server back to windows.

the only reason im really using ubuntu for my server is mythtv backend and s/w raid 5. but only reason im really using raid 5 is to have 1 large HDD so all movies/tv shows appear under 1 folder, but with xbmc/boxee you can assign more than one location to the same folder, so thats not really a big issue. and windows is a lot easier to manage than linux.

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#383074 22-Sep-2010 10:37

I've been on GBPVR for about 2 almost 3 years now. The Multirecord (all channels on a transponder) - which media portal also does - is a great feature.

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#383080 22-Sep-2010 10:47

yeah i was a heavy gbpvr user about 6 years ago, used it for about 3-4 years but then started looking for a fancy interface, went to mediaportal, but that kept crashing and missing recordings (gbpvr i think only missed 3 since i started using it, version 0.19 i think).

mythtv has a great backend, only misses a recording if my hdd is too full and the tv guide hasnt updated (which sadly happens a lot for me, i need more hdds).

im also considering just getting an eyetv dtt deluxe. that could plug directly into my mac mini, i couldnt schedule from my apple tv or watch live tv off it, but i should be able to watch the recorded files. its really small, but only one channel at a time...

oh and the reason i switched from windows to ubuntu was playback quality in windows, i kept getting tearring that wouldnt go away and stuttery playback, on ubuntu it just worked flawlessly, same on my macs.

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#383094 22-Sep-2010 11:33

doh - didn't even notice your username /me waves at reven.

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#383103 22-Sep-2010 11:53

davidcole: doh - didn't even notice your username /me waves at reven.

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#383126 22-Sep-2010 12:27

I'm using a Blackgold BG3595 - dual DVBT, Dual DVBS2 and single analogue. PCI-e tho. Works beautifully.
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#383318 22-Sep-2010 19:32

I use the Hauppage Nova-TD. Works where a HVR-2200 did not. Mine may have been a bad card though, lots of others like the HVR-2200.

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#383410 23-Sep-2010 02:14

nova T 500 mythbuntu works fine freeview HD
nova T 500 has two tuners which is quite handy

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#383707 23-Sep-2010 16:53

hvr2200 works fine, except for FM radio in latest iterations of mediaportal.

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#383710 23-Sep-2010 17:04

Pair or 3 of the dirt cheap USB sticks is what I would get. 2 work fine. Not tried 3 yet. Thats on windows media center, but they apparantly work on linux, and at $9 US each, if they dont its not a massive loss.

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