Pinnacle PCTV 200e

The Pinnacle PCTV 200e is a DVB-T highspeed USB 2.0 adapter with an active antenna. It was first presented on the CeBIT 2005, and still available for about EUR 40,-.

Under Windows it can be used with alternative DVB software thanks to existing BDA drivers, while under GNU\Linux support is still missing, although both the frontend MT352 and the tuner MT2060 are already supported by LinuxTV.

The PCTV 200e is identical to the PCTV 260e, the PCTV 60e and the "PCTV DVB-T Pro USB".

Current Status

As of June 2007 the driver is currently being written/debugged. Everyone who wants to help, can do so. Just contact the LinuxTV mailing list, or contact the developer on the LinuxTV IRC (his nick: freez).

Current Tasks

• find out why the device is not giving the expected answers (maybe torture will help?)

Comments

Juan Garcia

Good news!!

Today 28-Jul-2007, after really heavily torturing the device the device started to talk!

Now the channels can be tunned, TV can be watched and Radio can be listened with the PCTV 200e. All of these tested using Kaffeine as media player.

The driver still is in beta, but we hope soon will be posted in the link for sources below. But it seems to be quite stable.

Have a try!

Source Code

The source code is available at mrec's site: (currently outdated.)

http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/v4l-dvb-pinnacle200e

Stuff that might be useful

• usbsnoop_pctv200e.log.bz2 (compressed ~94MB)
• lsusb.log

Further Information

• PCTV 200e on the DVB_USB page
• Product Page