Nebula Digi TV

Internal PCI Digital TV card. Suitable for Freeview in the UK.

This Nebula Electronics card works under both Windows and Linux, although the Windows software provided seems a bit flakey.

To get it working under Linux you need to load two kernel modules. These are available in stock Kubuntu kernels at 2.6.12 and later - and may have been there earlier. bttv loads automatically but in earlier releases of Kubuntu you may have to load dvb_bt8xx by including it in /etc/modules.

However,  having upgraded to Kubuntu 8.04 I have had problems.  Although the modules load automatically at boot time, the card does not work.  However,  if I unload dvb_by8xx and reload it things work OK.  It appears that this is a known problem.  It seems that Kopete grabs the TV card thinking it is a webcam.  There doesn't seem to be a way to stop it doing that.  However,  if you stop Kopete being loaded everything works OK.

I use Kaffeine to view TV.

Last modified 26/05/08