i did a minimal config for mumudvb.conf but i get https://pastebin.com/6hLGgxJ7 i'm assuming that the error is something to do with mumudvb.conf but i don't see a problem ok, i figured it out hello, I bought a dvb-t2/c stick and there is no driver automatically loaded. usb id = 1d19:0100 Dexatek Technology Ltd. does it make sense to try to make it run, or should I better return it as long as I can? ukleinek: what about does dmesg say? cristian_c: http://paste.debian.net/1029762/ this is a 4.16 debian kernel there is only a single match for the vendor id in the kernel tree ite makes af90xx chips i think af9033 and af9035 have drivers of some sort I see af9005.c drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/rtl28xxu.c has some dexatek devices af9015 and af9035 are both in that dir as well you're shooting blind if you don't know what any of the chips inside are however ah, i see so maybe mauro will show up and magically just know whats inside https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9613771/ ukleinek: so, you should at least trying to look for the firmware cristian_c: on the cd you mean? There is nothing helpful there is something newer: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg112928.html the patches don't fit though :-| http://www.ubuntu-forum.de/artikel/67406/suche-firmware-f%C3%BCr-dvb-t2-usb-stick-dvz-300-t2c-von-auvisio.html another user said it's not supported ukleinek: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/attachment/ticket/20534/gonzo_dvb.patch (from https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/20534 ) ' This is the patch to make my stick work. ' ' Ok, it seems to work now, I had to click in the thumbnail on the bottom left. How do I close a ticket? ' seems to be related to https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg112928.html ukleinek: btw, your cpu must have HEVC support for this dvb-t2 usb stick *graphics cristian_c: how do I find out if it does? a not so old cpu with onboard graphics so, it'senough to decode video stream ukleinek: btw, look at the patch I've linked that vlc thread shows a user has tried it and he confirms it's working gonzo_dvb.patch needing HEVC is not specific to this stick, but to dvb-t2 in Germany, right? O.o hevc is about video decoding / compression *encoding h.265 but the stick probably only provides what the ether gives it and doesn't transcode, does it? dvb stick streams signal and graphics plays the stream I thinf it it wasn't, cpu usage would raise to 100% from hardware ecode to software decode cristian_c: so the dvb-t signal isn't encoded in HEVC? I think so it should be decoded so, ifmyou've that cpu, I think you've a nvidia + intel card it's a thinkpad laptop with intel graphics you've not issues with hevc, I think so, you could look at the patch if you had an old celeron, then maybe no hevc hw support maybe I need to use this on an slightly older thinkpad because it has an vga output for the beamer. anyhow, I resolved the conflict in the patch by Andreas Kemnade