[leepenny]

I have just found a usb freesat receiver (Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-S-USB2 - DVB-S ) and was wondering whether this will work as a pvr in xbmc live (needs to be usb as have no free pci slots). Ive seen in some forums that it may not be compatible, although these posts were quite old and help would be appreciated.

[thebearnecessit]

i bought this a fe wmonths ago, and I did get it working in xbmc but the first sign of a problem and i didn't bother trying to fix it. bought it just to see if i could get it working then lost interest.

im going to try and get it working again in the next few days with frodo.

[noggin]

I have just found a usb freesat receiver (Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-S-USB2 - DVB-S ) and was wondering whether this will work as a pvr in xbmc live (needs to be usb as have no free pci slots). Ive seen in some forums that it may not be compatible, although these posts were quite old and help would be appreciated.

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Ha...OVA-S-USB2

and

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge

suggest that the Nova-S-USB2 isn't supported - though things always change.

I think that the tuner is DVB-S only, which these days means SD-only pretty much, as Freesat HD channels are now DVB-S2 (the newer modulation scheme)

There are other USB devices that are supported here :
DVB-S2 (which also do DVB-S) http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DV...SB_Devices
and here
DVB-S http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_USB_Devices