Please recommend USB DVB-S2 tuner with Win7 support (3 Viewers)

cfforce

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    fortuna,

    The S660 works very well, it's a marginal slower then the S470 PciE, cause of extra latency of USB, but zapping works very well.
    MP has diseq support in upcomming SVN or RC: 0002552: DiSEqC support is not working for TeVii cards - MediaPortal Bugtracker

    Currently running the S660 (2 of them in @ system), for 8 days without crash or reboot. :p

    I didn't test it on an ION system as TVService / MP; but it should be no problem. Maybe to improve zapping speed a faster HDD / SSD.
     

    jonm

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    Got my Tevii S660 today but I can't get any DVB-S2 channels on it :(

    Anyone else who's using one - do you have DVB-S2 working OK?
     

    jonm

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    @ cfforce... Yeah, I ticked that but it made no difference.

    What version of MP are you using with the Tevii 660? Are you on 1.1.0 or a later SVN?

    I had the latest SVN installed but have gone back to 1.1.0beta now and I still can't get it to detect any S2 channels.
    I know the card's working OK because I just tried it with the demo of ProgDVB which came on its driver CD - and that
    picked the DVB-S2 channels up OK.

    So it's something not quite right with the channel scan in MP... I think.
     

    retro

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    Any updates on Tevii S660...does it work now...no problems searching S2-channels etc..?!?
     

    jonm

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    It works-ish - I had to manually add the S2 channels, and it seems to take a while to respond/tune in sometimes, so channel changing can be a pain. I've not had a chance to look into where the delay is. It was only really a stop-gap for me so I could get S2 channels whilst waiting for a dual DVB-S2 PCIe card to become available, so I may not keep it if something suitable turns up.
     

    cfforce

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    It works; also S2 scanning; only tuning is a pain indeed.. especialy from a LNB to another LNB can take sometimes 5-10sec.
    If i tune to another channel on same freq. is super fast.
     

    retro

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    Thanks for your replys.

    Ok, so it works, but not very good then...

    Any other box that can be recommended..?
    TechnoTrend Connect S2-3600 or 3650..??
    Maybe Q-Box II...???
     

    jonm

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    I think some people have said that the Mystique card is OK. I may get one of those but I've spent silly money on PC bits recently so am holding off for a while...
     

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    I think some people have said that the Mystique card is OK. I may get one of those but I've spent silly money on PC bits recently so am holding off for a while...
    Don't think Mystique have USB-boxes, do they..?
     

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