Getting DVB-C to work

[hornsounder]

Hi,

i also wondered which is the best solution SDBA or mytheatre plugin. I just took the mytheatre plugin because at that day the website where the sdba network encoder could be downloaded were down. So i gave the mytheater plugin a shot and till now its fairly stable.

stabilty reports for dvb-c and SDBAR would be interesting for me. So if anyone has one ... feel free

Alexander

[rickgillyon]

They are both very stable now. Many people use SBDAR and it works well, MyTheatre is pretty good too. Differences are: SBDAR is free, MyTheatre is not but uses DVBCore plugins. If you don't need the plugins, SBDAR is the one for you.

[thborchert]

I've got SBDAR and German DVB-C running stable so far, with encrypted channels working fine. I'm still not sure what those "core functionalities" would be - not real easy to find out in the MyTheatre forums. So I'm happy - apart from the fact that I would want SageTV to support this all by itself.

Thomas

[hornsounder]

Hi,

same for me ! i also want the native support an hope my support requests will be answered soon.

Alexander

[unilsson]

Just thought I get in on this thread. I just installed a FloppyDTV with a Conax CAM for DVB-C. I am getting inconsistent behavior regarding channel switching. Sometimes (rather often, actually) I get "No signal" on channels that at other times tune without a problem.

I've tried with MyTheatre and do not seem to get this problem so now I am gonna look into the Mytheatre plugin. Anyone else had similar problems?

Best wishes

[Alfiegerner]

This seems to a general issue across dvb-c /t /s cards at the moment. Best bet is to raise a bug support.

[unilsson]

That would probably be the way to go. The thing is that the FireDTV-T worked like a charm with SageTV - therefore I was hoping that the DVB-C variant would behave the same - not the case though, it seems.

[Alfiegerner]

Originally Posted by unilsson

That would probably be the way to go. The thing is that the FireDTV-T worked like a charm with SageTV - therefore I was hoping that the DVB-C variant would behave the same - not the case though, it seems.

That's a shame, sounds like the dvb-c support is no really there yet. I hope they make dvb-c /s a priority now.

[thborchert]

Well, FWIW, I haven't heard from support or development since that post I quoted. I'd be willing to test, and I understand the problem of testing with a signal that you can't get as a developer, but it seems to me Anders has solved the problems for them already.

Thomas

[rickgillyon]

Like alfiegerner said, I guess it's a problem of priorities. I'm sure Sage will get there sooner or later...