Woot recently sold the Sabrent TV-DGUSB USB HDTV (ATSC) Tuner for $30. This card/dongle has horrible support. A Google for it turns up almost no pages and I couldn't even find it on Sabrent's own website. Here's the information I do have on it:
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Product: Sabrent TV-DGUSB
ID: 05e1:0480
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lsusb says: Syntek SemiconductorChips: Auvitek au0828
Chips: Auvitek au8524
A similar card with id 05e1:0400 is supported with code from LinuxTV.org. The cards differ in that this one has the au8524 and the driver supported one has a au8522. It turns out that the difference is minimal enough that we can use the driver from one for the other.
Steps to get it working in openSUSE 11.1:
1. Add the Packman repositories.
2. Get the kernel-source, dvb, and vlc packages.
3. Get http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mkrufky/teledongle/archive/tip.tar.bz2.
4. Unbzip it.
5. Change line 222 of linux/drivers/media/video/au0828/au0828-cards.c from 0x0400 to 0x0480. Build it with 'make' and 'make install' as root.
6. Reboot (yes, its necessary).
7. Plug in the card. You can verify everything is working by making sure the blue light on the unit is on, the au0828 module is installed ('lsmod | grep au0828'), or 'dmesg | tail' should read:
8. You'll need a list of valid channels to use. In the USA, use (not as root):
scan /usr/share/dvb/atsc/us-NTSC-center-frequencies-8VSB -o zap -a 0 | tee ~/channels.conf
You will get a lot of messages about 'tuning failed'. Ignore these. It just means that there is no station on that channel. If you have multiple TV tuners in your system (I did), then you'll need to tell the scan command which one to use using the '-a' switch. 0 is the first tuner, 1 is the second and so on.
When this is done, channels.conf should have a few (or many) lines, each one corresponding to a local TV channel.
9. Start VLC:
vlc --color --ttl 12 --dvb-adapter=0 channels.conf
Again, if you have multiple adapters, tell vlc which one to use with the 'dvb-adapter' switch. The next and previous buttons change the channels.
If all went well, then you're watching live high definition TV. If the video is blocky or cutting out then either your processor is too slow (more on this in a moment) or your signal is not sufficient. The antenna that comes with the tuner is pretty small. I found that sometimes putting the antenna on its side improves the reception significantly.
On my 2.2GHz 4-year-old processor, watching the broadcast full screen took 25% of the processor time (using top). This is pretty good and better than BlazeVideo (the Windows software that comes with the card) that took closer to 50%. This means HDTV should be doable on just about every recent computer, maybe even netbooks. I'll try that next and report back.
I should note that some channels use more processing power than others. On my laptop (a five-year-old Sempron at 1.8GHz), the processor usage per channel is constant, but from channel to channel to varies from 15% to 80%.
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Sabrent_TV-USBHD
http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mkrufky/teledongle
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=38890
http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/multimedia/405117-sabrent-digital-hdtv-atsc-analog-usb.html
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ATSC_USB_DevicesWoot recently sold the Sabrent TV-DGUSB USB HDTV (ATSC) Tuner for $30. This card/dongle has horrible support. A Google for it turns up almost no pages and I couldn't even find it on Sabrent's own website. Here's the information I do have on it:
Product: Sabrent TV-DGUSB
ID: 05e1:0480
lsusb says: Syntek Semiconductor
Chips: Auvitek au0828
Chips: Auvitek au8524
A similar card with id 05e1:0400 is supported with code from LinuxTV.org. The cards differ in that this one has the au8524 and the driver supported one has a au8522. It turns out that the difference is minimal enough that we can use the driver from one for the other.
Steps to get it working in openSUSE 11.1:
1. Add the Packman repositories.
2. Get the kernel-source, dvb, and vlc packages.
3. Get http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mkrufky/teledongle/archive/tip.tar.bz2.
4. Unbzip it.
5. Change line 222 of linux/drivers/media/video/au0828/au0828-cards.c from 0x0400 to 0x0480. Build it with 'make' and 'make install' as root.
6. Reboot (yes, its necessary).
7. Plug in the card. You can verify everything is working by making sure the blue light on the unit is on, the au0828 module is installed ('lsmod | grep au0828'), or 'dmesg | tail' should read:
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8. You'll need a list of valid channels to use. In the USA, use (not as root):
scan /usr/share/dvb/atsc/us-NTSC-center-frequencies-8VSB -o zap -a 0 | tee ~/channels.conf
You will get a lot of messages about 'tuning failed'. Ignore these. It just means that there is no station on that channel. If you have multiple TV tuners in your system (I did), then you'll need to tell the scan command which one to use using the '-a' switch. 0 is the first tuner, 1 is the second and so on.
When this is done, channels.conf should have a few (or many) lines, each one corresponding to a local TV channel.
9. Start VLC:
vlc --color --ttl 12 --dvb-adapter=0 channels.conf
Again, if you have multiple adapters, tell vlc which one to use with the 'dvb-adapter' switch. The next and previous buttons change the channels.
If all went well, then you're watching live high definition TV. If the video is blocky or cutting out then either your processor is too slow (more on this in a moment) or your signal is not sufficient. The antenna that comes with the tuner is pretty small. I found that sometimes putting the antenna on its side improves the reception significantly.
On my 2.2GHz 4-year-old processor, watching the broadcast full screen took 25% of the processor time (using top). This is pretty good and better than BlazeVideo (the Windows software that comes with the card) that took closer to 50%. This means HDTV should be doable on just about every recent computer, maybe even netbooks. I'll try that next and report back.
I should note that some channels use more processing power than others. On my laptop (a five-year-old Sempron at 1.8GHz), the processor usage per channel is constant, but from channel to channel to varies from 15% to 80%.
Www Sabrent Com Downloads Php Setup
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Sabrent_TV-USBHDhttp://linuxtv.org/hg/~mkrufky/teledongle
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=38890
Sabrent Usb 2.0 Drivers
http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/multimedia/405117-sabrent-digital-hdtv-atsc-analog-usb.htmlhttp://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ATSC_USB_Devices
