Dual Kworld dvb-t 100s Problems

[dimlow]

Today i was impressed with the gbpvr software so much that i went out and got second kworld dvb-100 card as they are on offer here at Maplins and the first one seemed to be working well with gbpvr. anywany, when i had installed the second card,windows installed the drivers i thought all was ok,

so i went into gb pvr setop and installed the second card, but now i find when i tune it, it shows a good signal level and quality, but no channels come up in the listing ?

I also think> im not sure now its been a few hours! that i also tried to retune the first card and go the same results. Since then i have been pulling out cards and reinstalling drivers and testing and searching the net for a solution. Hence , my post!

So if anybody can point be in the right direction ??????????

Regards
Gary

[sub]

Do you know for sure the drivers for this device support multiple devices in the same machine? Some dont.

[herbs]

They do not, there was someone else who tried it sometime ago and gave up. There hasn't been a driver update for sometime if memory serves me correctly (i have a rebadged kworld dvb-t100). If your lucky take it back and visit your local tesco superstore they had the nova-t sticks for £9.99. If your unlucky and tescos don't have them I recommend the nova-t pci for £35 ish online.

[dimlow]

I have no idea if these drivers support multiple devices in the same machine, All i know the is the drivers are meant to be on the windows OK list if you know what i mean. Any way i tried something and got strange result.

whilst i was tuning again i removed one of the ariel s so only one card had a lead into it. i then did a tune and got the channels, and the good bit. i did not change the leads over, but did a tune on the other tuner expecting to get no signal, what i did get was a signal and a quality fugure. This is strange as there was no lead in the card, i expect the driver is only seeing one card.

yesterday before i got the extra card i had a look around the net, an i found posts on another PVR site were someone was quoting that he was using two of these cards. so i expected them to work. I hav tried looking for that post again tonight and i cant find it.

Im lost now i have wasted most of my evening trying to get this sorted.

Gary

[dimlow]

Well maybe Linux it the answer....

I have 3 x Kworld DVB T-100 cards in my server, and I run mythtv which has no problems with three of them (scheduling could be smarter but it is OK for now).

I am running Ubuntu Breezy, had to do NO kernel hacking at all to get the cards to be recognised and work.

I won't say how much hacking around I had to do to make mythtv work ;-)

There cards are nice cos you can "daisy chain" the antenna from one to the other. No need for a splitter. Kworld sells its cards to other companies like MSI (one of their TV@nywhere cards... I found which one, as it is still available, I could only find the Kworlds via eBay... expect to pay $60-$80).

If you want to test your cards, you can use Xine (choose your fave Xine GUI front-end, I used gxine). Once you've run tzap to create your channels frequency list, you can go into Xine and choose which DVB card you want to view. This is how I tested that my system was OK before running mythtv. Forget about dvbscan and pipes to mplayer etc as they actually did not work, and sent me off on a wild goose chase for 1/2 a day until I tried Xine.

In Gxine in preferences you'll find a DVB tab under another tab (prefs-media-dvb). Select which tuner you want to use there, or there is a command line flag for it too I think....

If you need it, I can send you my channels.conf file out of tzap which xine uses for ch up/down.

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This was found here... http://www.dtvforum.info/lofiversion/ind...34460.html"

Im sure there has to be a way to get these cards working, i was going to take one of the cards back to today, but i think i will hang on for a while.

Gary

[herbs]

Thats because the linux driver are more than likely not written by kworld.

[dimlow]

Herbs, yea, thought of that, Anyway, i ditched the second card and got a V-Gear MobiDTV, as they were also on offer at maplins for only £29. I saw posts here saying that it was found in the drivers list for gbpvr and recognised as a freecom usb tv, but as it turned out it was not found when i installed. But with a little hacking in the BDA.ini i got it to work, Seems the filters are name different in the lastest drivers!

For any body thats interested here is what i added to the BDA.ini file to get it working.

[V-Gear MobiDTV]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=USB Digital-TV Receiver
FILTER_CAPTURE=USB Digital-TV Device Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=BDA MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

Hope this hekps others.

And yes the Kworls and the v-Gear work fine together ! Now Im a happy chappy!


Regards
Gary

[sub]

Herbs, yea, thought of that, Anyway, i ditched the second card and got a V-Gear MobiDTV, as they were also on offer at maplins for only £29. I saw posts here saying that it was found in the drivers list for gbpvr and recognised as a freecom usb tv, but as it turned out it was not found when i installed. But with a little hacking in the BDA.ini i got it to work, Seems the filters are name different in the lastest drivers!

For any body thats interested here is what i added to the BDA.ini file to get it working.

[V-Gear MobiDTV]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=USB Digital-TV Receiver
FILTER_CAPTURE=USB Digital-TV Device Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=BDA MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

Hope this hekps others.

And yes the Kworls and the v-Gear work fine together ! Now Im a happy chappy!


Regards
Gary

Cheers, I'll add it to the master file.