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DVB-T OK need advise on DVT-T2

Added by Jim Learmonth over 9 years ago

I purchased a USB dongle off ebay for about £6.00, didn't expect much.
It came with a dongle, Win CD, aerial and remote.
On windows it was rubbish you might as well bin the Win CD, aerial and remote.
I popped the dongle into my Linux server and tvheadend found :
Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T) : DVB-T #0
I didn't do much with it at the time.

Recently got a new Raspberry PI 2 and set up as home server.
Plugged dongle into that and built tvheadend from source.
Bingo ... All my XBMC clients can now play/record Tv and Radio with EPG.
VERY impressed.

I think the dongle shown above is SD only.
I see some items on ebay such as
USB TV Stick DVB-T2 /T/C +FM+DAB+SDR Recorder Receiver RTL2832P+R828D+MN88427 WT
Seems to be the same chip i.e. RTL2832P

Need more info on this HD thing and what's required, please advise.
Thanks
Jim


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RE: DVB-T OK need advise on DVT-T2 - Added by Prof Yaffle over 9 years ago

You need to do some homework on the precise stick - chipset is a good indicator of support, but it's not univeral. Broadly, you need appropriate firmware in /lib/firmware (which may be installable as a package or you may need to find it separately, e.g. from the OpenElec github repository), and you need a driver (which may be built into your kernel or you may need to build it separately by compiling V4L).

A little bit more information here:

http://docs.tvheadend.org/before_you_begin/

Not sure how the Pi2 handles MPEG-4/H.264 (which is the typical codec for HD) and whether there are any implications as there were for licensing MPEG-2 - I don't think so, I think H.264 was free but MPEG-2 and VC-1 were extras.

Watch the I/O speed on a Pi as well, as the USB ports share bandwidth with your Ethernet port. It shouldn't be a problem in normal use, but don't expect to have multiple HD streams as well as constant network traffic - something will get dropped. And you'll probably need a powered hub from what I've read elsewhere.

All Pi-related comments apocryphal: I have one, but don't use it for media at all so have no direct experience.

RE: DVB-T OK need advise on DVT-T2 - Added by Jim Learmonth over 9 years ago

OK thanks for the info.
I will have a look at the links.
It's a knowledge gathering exercise.
Even so the SD I have is so good I might just stick with that.
Thanks again
Jim

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