Sage 6 DVB-C supported cards

[Dror Engel]

Hi ,
I would like to buy dvb-c in order to get epg from my cable provider (all the channels are encrypted but the epg isn't)
I wonder which pci cards are supported under sage 6? any one have experience using some kind of cards?

thanx
Dror.

[rickgillyon]

DVB-C is not yet supported at all I'm afraid. It may well work (some people have reported some success), others are using the MyTheatre Network Encoder or SBDARecorder with Sage.

I haven't found a good PCI card yet, would recommend FireDTV or FloppyDTV tuners.

[thborchert]

Hi,

well, you raise two problems:

1. DVB-C
It is not officially supported yet. You may get it to work. The only hardware I have found to work reliably with encryption is FireDTV/FloppyDTV. With German Kabel Deutschland, I only got it to work with SBDARecorder, however, MyTheatre shouldn't be a problem, either.

2. EPG
SageTV is currently not able to use any EPG information coming with the TV signal. Instead, Sage has made contracts with Internet EPG providers in several countries. Also, there are at least two XMLTV import utilities, so you can use any EPG that comes in XMLTV format. In any case, the EPG data is coming via the internet, not via the TV signal.

Thomas

[rickgillyon]

Not done it for a while, but when I first installed DVB-C native in Sage and with DVB-T, Sage picked up the on-air EPG fine. It worked a week ahead, but the data was very basic so I reverted to an XMLTV feed which is far more detailed.

[thborchert]

So how did it show up in the EPG set-up of the tuner?

[Dror Engel]

thborchert ,
I have already application that transform the epg from the tv to XMLTV so it's not a problem
i'm just looking for pci card and also get some insights about sage support with DVB-C

[thborchert]

Dror,

which app is that? I'd be interested.

Thanks!

Thomas

[unilsson]

Hi,
tried to get FloppyDTV to work with DVB-C but I couldn't seem to get a consistent tuning of channels in Sage. Sometimes channels would tune and sometimes it would be the "No signal" result.

Best wishes

[thborchert]

Well, using SBDARec and FloppyDTV, you need to employ the full bag of tricks: retuning after every channel and switching back to an unencrypted channel before going to an encrypted one. Messes up channel hopping for sure. What I don't understand is why Sage doesn't do this after SBDARec has gone through this kind of debugging for months.

Thomas

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by thborchert

So how did it show up in the EPG set-up of the tuner?

You just tell it to use on-air EPG.

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by thborchert

Well, using SBDARec and FloppyDTV, you need to employ the full bag of tricks: retuning after every channel and switching back to an unencrypted channel before going to an encrypted one.

This is with SBDARec? If so, try the MyTheatre encoder...

[thborchert]

Yeah, I know myTheare uses better drivers. However, I rarely watch live anymore - hard enough to keep up with the recordings before disc space runs out. So it's not really an issue to me. I'll wait until Sage catches up.

Thomas

[krikkit]

just wanted to note that i have here a running setup of an internal pci dvb-c card (Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C) with sage tv 6.1, tuning unencrypted QAM 256 channels of my local cable provider "UPC Telekabel" in vienna (austria)...

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by krikkit

just wanted to note that i have here a running setup of an internal pci dvb-c card (Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C) with sage tv 6.1, tuning unencrypted QAM 256 channels of my local cable provider "UPC Telekabel" in vienna (austria)...

Good to hear! But a warning to UK users, I couldn't get this card working on UK cable, nor could Terratec support. YMMV.