Nebula Digitv Software With Dvico

[Brett1]

Hi,

Does anyone know if a DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital 4 is used in conjunction with Nebula DigiTV software using DBA drives if DigiTV will see two tuners and if so will it work as smoothly as having 2 DigiTV devices in the machine?

Cheers

Brett

[murrayt]

Brett1

It should do, but I haven't had a DVICO to test. I have run Leadtek DTV1000T cards and they worked OK with BDA drivers. To use the additional (non Nebula device) does require the BDA licence though.

It just appears as a second tuner in the devices listing.

[Brett1]

Hi Murrayt,

When you say it worked OK, where there any issues or was it like the DigiTV tuner?

Cheers

Brett

[murrayt]

Brett1

It was just another tuner. That is what is generally possible with a BDA interface, I can't say that it is universally applicable to all devices though.

[joeybloggs]

No idea about the DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital 4. Which would presumably give you three tuners... But DigiTV PCI plus Fusion DVB-T PCI seems to work ok (well until you hit the 2 min timeout). IMHO the timeout should ONLY apply to the 3rd party BDA devices not the Nebula ones, it's a PITA. Esp because IIRC the Nebula has actually been reverted to the WDM drivers, so it should just work

[murrayt]

joeybloggs

In my recent experience, if a neb card is correctly configured with WDM drivers then no time limit is imposed. I did notice that if you are not careful Win XP loads the BDA driver by default, so some care was required on re-installing the drivers (possibly relevant)

[joeybloggs]

Ok it results from my incomplete understanding of how DigiTV is now working.

For example

Nebula - Tuned to ABC (Watching Live)

Dvico - Tuned to SBS for some reason

Request a channel change to SBS, DigiTV swaps tuners. Reasonable I guess as there are two free and one is actually tuned to the channel you have just requested.

Nebula - Tuned to ABC

Dvico - Tuned to SBS (Watching Live)

So to get to SBS on the Nebula it's necessary to now request a different channel (Say 9) Ok neither tuner is tuned to this channel, so it just retunes the Dvico. Now request a change back to ABC to force a tuner swap back to the Nebula. Now request SBS again, as neither tuner is now tuned to SBS it will just retune the channel on the Nebula Hate to have to try that in the UK where it's all multi channeling...

Or option B just disable the use of the Dvico device.

[murrayt]

joeybloggs

Given Nebula's implementation of virtual tuners, you only need to select the channel yo want to view, equally DigiTV will allocate tuners to resource any timer or OTR recordings that are scheduled. If you particularly want to have a physical tuner tuned to a particular chanel you just select it in the Activity menu and use File=>Technical info to change it.

But with a Nebula BDA licence for the DVICO (as it is using DBA drivers) all that mucking around wouldn't be required

[Brett1]

Bit the bullet and brought a FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital 4 to replace the DigiTV. Have used it with the DiVCO software and it seems a bit flaky compared to the Nebula, so I changed across to the Nebula which works fine, almost the same however the channel changing is a bit slow, 1 or 2 seconds between changes. This is also the same for the DiVCO software so I assume it is the card. Any one else experience this?

I am now going to purchase the Nebula software and an extra license, if all goes well I will buy a second FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital 4 so I can record 4 channels.