Sage and DVB

[Mahoney]

Hi all,

I'm looking to put together a new system in the new year. I want it to use the following cards:

Twinhan DVB-S CI
Terratec 2800i Dual DVB-T

Both have BDA drivers. Anders expects the DVB-T card to be usable with his BDA DVB Network Encoder, so hopefully that sorts that one. However, he does not yet support DVB-S and is unlikely to in the near future as he's concentrating on DVB-C.

Am I right in thinking I should be able to get this working using the Universal Network Encoder? I expect it to be hard work, but I do need to know it's possible before spending the money and time!

[AndersNolberger]

Look at the MyTheatre plugin. It should be able to support both of your cards. Or you can use my plugin for the DVB-T card but if you by a license for MyTheatre you can use it for both. More in this thread: http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthr...ight=mytheatre

Anders

[Mahoney]

Thanks Anders, will do.

[xred]

Originally Posted by Mahoney

Hi all,

I'm looking to put together a new system in the new year. I want it to use the following cards:

Twinhan DVB-S CI
Terratec 2800i Dual DVB-T

Both have BDA drivers. Anders expects the DVB-T card to be usable with his BDA DVB Network Encoder, so hopefully that sorts that one. However, he does not yet support DVB-S and is unlikely to in the near future as he's concentrating on DVB-C.

Am I right in thinking I should be able to get this working using the Universal Network Encoder? I expect it to be hard work, but I do need to know it's possible before spending the money and time!

As Anders suggested, I also think the Mytheatre plugin is the way to go. After that, go to the Mytheatre website, and look for a utility called xmltv2mtepg. It will allow you take the EPG data from your satellite source and export it to a format (XMLTV) that Sage can use.

Very cool setup, only knock against it is the channel changes take a bit, but its very much worth it.

[andrew1810]

Can anyone tell me if a setup such as this will work alongside my current setup of Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2.0 plugged into STB using USB-UIRT?

I want to add another tuner, but am out of PCI ports so need a USB one and DVB ones seem cheaper than another Hauppauge.

I already have a DVB xmltv feed for the other STB so that isn't a problem, but would the two different setups interfere with each other?

Also, which USB DVB boxes should I be looking out for?

Thanks

Andrew