AW: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge Nexus-S with MythTV

[Joel Anderson]

> Hi Joel,
> 
> > Anyone using a Hauppauge Nexus-S DVB card with MythTV?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > I believe
> > there is linux support for this card, can anyone confirm if it works
> > and how well?  A friend of mine is interested in setting this up if
> > it's at all feasible.
> 
> Drivers for this card are right in the standard Linux Kernel, driver
> supports remote control, capture and playback via tv-out. The optional
> CI Module is also supported, haven't used that yet.
> 
> In mythtv, capture and Remote control work well; I haven't been able to
> figure out how to use the Tvout stuff yet, so I'm using tvout on my
> normal video card.
> 
> Initial setup for the channels is a hassle with current release version,
> however there's a patch in the works that contains automatic
> tuning/channel setup for dvb, see developers list.
> 
> The main Problem I've seen so far: Mythtv can't gracefully handle tuning
> to an encrypted channel (frontend freezes) and requires a lot of
> fiddling round to get runing again afterwards, so you must make sure
> that you only set up channels you can actually watch; for me that's ~50
> channels from ~500 offered by the sattelite - the rest are encrypted.
> 
> Bye, Martin

Thanks for the input, that's what I wanted to hear.  :)

-- 
Joel