[mythtv-users] external tuner board with up to 6 DVB tuners

[Mike Perkins]

Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> On Saturday 23 August 2008 01:23:17 bastard mail wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm just about to purchase a Netceiver. It seems to be a great extension to
>> Mythtv. The Netceiver is an external tuner board which can host up to 6 DVB
>> tuners in a mixed mode (DVB-S(2), C, T).
>> It is connected via GB ethernet to a linux box. A linux DVB driver is also
>> existing:
>>
>> http://www.reel-multimedia.com/en/netceiver_lieferumfang.html
>>
>> In addition there is another nice PCI board (extension HD linux) with a
>> h.264 decoder chip and HDMI output. But it's currently not support X only
>> framebuffer.
> 
> That all looks extremely good and well priced - if it works as advertised :)
> 
> Can you plug any DVB card into it? how do they drive them then?
> 
Looks like a bespoke system running embedded Linux. It's got three slots which 
can each have one of DVB-{C|S|S2|T}, the cards being manufactured specially for 
the board. Also two slots for CI modules.

It looks - interesting. Will certainly get a lot of interest from this group if 
the price isn't too steep. One of the ideas they give for use is to put it into 
an enclosure which can be mounted near a sat dish (or three) which means you 
don't have long downfeeds to worry about, just a Gb ethernet cable.

As for driving, I guess that's what the 'Linux Driver' mentioned above is for, 
to send the appropriate Select Tuner/Select Channel/Select Mode/etc up the Gb 
ethernet to the box.

Think of it as an HDHomerun on steroids, and possibly of worldwide use, for a 
change.

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Mike Perkins