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I am trying to set up a small Home Theatre PC, based on Ubuntu (14.04), where I'm planning to run MythTV.

I've chosen the KWorld UB435-Q because of price, and have hit a wall as it seems many others have.
I verified mine is a V3. This post on linuxtv.org says the V3 only works on a USB3 interface. Well, that is not what the package spec says... But of course my box is USB 2.0 only.

Now the folks at LinuxTV seem to have done some work on that V3 device

From the comments, the "patch" has been verified on ATSC signals (8VSB).

What would it take to have that patch available on a Ubuntu build ? Short of me rebuilding the kernel...

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I managed to get this to work...

This page at linuxtv.org informs that this KWorld UB435-Q V3 is supported in Kernel 3.16.

I updated my box (Ubuntu 14.04) to use Kernel 3.16 (explained at How can I install 3.16 kernel on Ubuntu 14.04), much easier than trying to recompile the V4L library with the updated driver.

Once this got done, the device is recognized (expected), and able to scan. I have now my MythTV setup locking all ATSC channels. My box is a Gygabyte Brix GB-BXBT-2807. It has 1 USB 3.0 and 2 USB 2.0. Just by chance, My first try had the tuner on the USB3 slot -> that works fine.

I then moved the tuner to one of the USB2 slots, detected fine, went through the whole scan & able to tune just fine.

So, great little inexpensive tuner.

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