In order to test the viability of Media Center PC's I have recently bought a Terratec Cinergy T2 USB DVB-T receiver (in it's EyeTV appearance, with the EyeTV MacOS software).
While the hardware is a very nice piece of equipment, the software side under Linux is less bright. The MacOS software EyeTV by Elgato is really nice, though. But since I also want to test Linux Media Centers, I wanted the USB DVB-T box to work under Linux (PowerPC Linux on a Mac Mini G4, that is).
Recent 2.6 Linux kernels include a very functional driver for the T2. Application-side, I'm still struggling with MythTV (rant: how can anyone use, or even set up, such a beast, is beyond me.../rant) and Kaffeine.
While Kaffeine basically works, it's quite CPU intensive. But it was also unable to find all DVB-T channels in Luxembourg.
Kaffeine can also do manual tuning, but you need lots of DVB-T specific info in order to manually tune the DVB receiver. I was unable to find all that info... Hence I set out to gather what I could.
With the help of the excellent TSReader software, I was able to dump the description of the complete MPEG-2 Transport Stream (that is the container where the various video and audio streams are sent within). Here is the result:
| Channel | Frequency | Program |
| 7 | 191.5 MHz | M6 (french) |
| 24 | 498 MHz | RTL Belgium/Netherland Multiplex |
| 27 | 522 MHz | RTL Luxembourg Multiplex |
Click on a Program in the table to see the complete Transport Stream decode. I was unfortunately unable to lock on the channel 24 multiplex, and the EyeTV software reports "No Signal" for all programs therein.