[linux-dvb] Re: Good card to get

[Richard Walker <runnyhunny@ntlworld.com>]

On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 10:01  am, Holger Waechtler wrote:

> Simeon Walker wrote:
>
> > Can you tell us how it is better than the Nova-T? Do the same Linux 
> > drivers work?
> you need the bt878 driver in the dvb-kernel tree, the release branch 
> has no support for this card (and won't get it since you can't build 
> the driver standalone without patching your kernel - )
Indeed.

I installed a patched (as per code in dvb-kernel) bttv 0.9.4 module, 
and pulled dvb-kernel from CVS.

> Florian Schirmer wrote this driver, IIRC he reported that it works 
> flawlessly on UHF and VHF channels.
I've not heard from him for a while.

I find that the Nebula card is less 'fussy' than the Nova - it'll 
happily record from any channel.  My Nova would often complain that the 
signal strength wasn't good enough.



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