TBS Windows Linux PCIE Universal User Guide

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Dear Customers：
Thank you so much for using this product. TBS TV tuner cards support digital TV
standard signals of DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/T2, DVB-C, ISDB-T and ATSC .In order to use
this digital TV tuner card correctly, please read this manual carefully at the
beginning. Here takes TBS6904 DVB-S2 Quad Tuner PCI-e Card as an example for
correct installation under the Windows system environment.
1 Hardware Installation
1.1 Install TBS TV Tuner Card
Power off the computer and unplug the DC line before installing TBS tuner card.
And then remove computer cover and take out cover panel of PCIe slot in which you
want to put the card. Finally, insert the card in PCIe slot and fix card bracket with
screw. Make sure the card fit in PCIe slot tightly. Then put back computer cover.
Attention：
When turn off the computer, please do not touch the PC internal components
especially the CUP and VGA chip, which has a high temperature with a risk of
burns!
1.2 Connect TV Signal Line to the TV Tuner Card on PC
Please be sure to see the manual of PC and peripheral equipment.
Please make sure there is no damage on the antenna device connecting to TBS
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TV tuner card on PC via digital TV signal line. The following TBS6904 TV Signal
table is for your reference.
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LNB 3/S.S2
LNB 2/S.S2
LNB 1/S.S2
LNB 0/S.S2
2 Check hardware whether is detect by your PC
Start your PC and jump to “Computer Management”. There will pop up a notice “Failed
to install the device driver” if you use Windows 7 operating system. In order to install the
driver successfully, you have to do as the prompts step by step.Then you can check the TBS
TV tuner hardware device ID as follows:Open “Computer Management”, click “Other
devices”, finally choose and double click the right hardware device for more details. Please
kindly see the following screenshot for your reference.

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2.1 Download TBS6904 Windows Driver from Our Website

1）http://www.tbsiptv.com/index.php?route=product/download/drivers&id=13
2）download and then unzip TBS 6904 Windows driver

3）Click “TBS_6904_driver_setup”, and then a new window will pop up:
4）Click “Next” “Install” “Finish” to complete installation

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5）To verify if driver was correctly installed: Choose “My Computer”, right click and
choose “System Properties” to pop up “System Properties” windows, click
“Hardware” → “Device Manager”. Then click “+”in front of “Sound, video and game
controllers”. If you can see “TBS6904 Quad DVB S/S2 BDA Tuners” that means you do
have installed driver correctly. Just display as below:

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3 Play Software Installation
To enjoy satellite TV on PC or record video, you still need to install player software
and right set the search parameters.The above series of TBS TV tuner Card is
compatible with a lot of software like TBSViewer, DVBDream, ProgDVB etc.
Here is a link is for downloading Player software. Fordetailed installation

instructions, see its Software Installation Instructions.
http://www.tbsiptv.com/index.php?route=product/download&path=6
Moreover, you can check some Video Guide on the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/user/buydvb/videos

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TBS Ubuntu Closed-Source Driver Installation Manual
In order to use this digital TV tuner card correctly, please read this manual carefully
at the beginning. Here takes TBS6904 DVB-S2 Quad Tuner PCI-e Card as an example
for correct installation under the Ubuntu system environment.
1 Installing Drivers
1.1 Reboot your computer open “Terminal”, input the command “sudo-s” and
Ubuntu default password;
1.2 #lspci -vvv | grep 6904 (This command detects whether there is “Device
6904”, displaying as the following webui.)
1.3 Download TBS6904 Linux Driver on our website and then save the file to the
hard disk directory. Here is the link for downloading:
http://www.tbsiptv.com/index.php?route=product/download/drivers&path=
3&id=13
Now we take an example to illustrate “How To” by saving the file on the desktop:
1）http://www.tbsiptv.com/index.php?route=product/download/drivers&id=13
2）Create a new folder named “ 6904”on the desktop, and then save all the TBS6904
Linux Driver files in this folder;
3）Command # cd /home/zhangweihua/Desktop/6904

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4) Command# unzip tbs-linux-drivers_v160630.zip ( Unzip the downloading “ZIP”

file, do as follows.）
1.4 Unzip “bz2” file

Command # tar xjvf linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2 （See screenshot below.）

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1.5 Enter the directory of unzipped “linux-tbs-drivers”

# cd linux-tbs-drivers (See screenshot below.）
2 Check system kernel and install the corresponding file according to
your operating system.

2.1 # uname -a (See screenshot below: It shows the Ubuntu system version is
4.4.0-34 X86_64 bits.）

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3 Delete the following system kernel media driver.（See screenshot below.）
3.1) # sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/
3.1.1 for x86 kernel 2.6.x (x86 32 bit installations of kernel 2.6.x):
#.v4l/tbs-x86.sh
3.1.2 for x86 kernel 3.x (x86 32 bit installations of kernel 3.x):
#.v4l/tbs-x86_r3.sh
3.1.3 for x86 64 bit (do not forget to delete your kernel version media folder)
#.v4l/tbs-x86_64.sh

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4 If you want to use TBS DVBC TV tuner card, execute the corresponding system
files. (If you use DVB-S/S2 or DVB-T/T2 TV tuner card, please skip this step and
jump to step 5.)
for x86 kernel 2.6.x (x86 32 bit installations of kernel 2.6.x):

#./v4l/tbs-dvbc-x86.sh
for x86 kernel 3.x (x86 32 bit installations of kernel 3.x):
#./v4l/tbs-dvbc-x86_r3.sh
for any x86_64 kernel (x86 64 bit installations of Linux):
#./v4l/tbs-dvbc-x86_64.sh
5 Compile and then set up. Finally reboot the computer to complete installation.
5.1 make
5.2 make install
5.3 reboot
6 After rebooting the computer, please check whether the driver has been
successfully installed.（See screenshot below.）
6.1 # dmesg | grep frontend

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TBS Ubuntu Open Source Driver Installation Manual

1 Installing Drivers
1.1 Reboot your computer and then enter the operating system webui, right click to
open “Terminal”, input the command “sudo-s” and Ubuntu default password;
finally you will get access to the operating system.
1.2 # lspci -vvv | grep 6904 (This command detects whether there is “Device 6904”,
displaying as the following webui.）
2 Set up a directory named “tbsdriver”. Here takes saving the directory on the
desktop as an example.
2.1 # mkdir tbsdriver (See screenshot below.）

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2.2 Execute the command and install “git” package. (See screenshot below.)
# apt-get install git
2.3 Enter the directory of “tbsdriver”, and then download “media build” and
“media” files. (See the following screenshot.)
# git clone https://github.com/tbsdtv/media_build.git
# git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/tbsdtv/linux_media.git -b latest ./media

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2.4 Enter the directory of “media build”，execute “ make dir DIR=../media” as the
following screenshot.
# make dir DIR=../media
2.5 # make distclean（See screenshot below.）

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2.6 # make -j4
2.7 # make install (See screenshot below.）

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2.8 Install “firmware” and execute the following command. Please save the file in
your favorite directory, and then unzip the file to “lib/firmwares” directory as
the below screenshot.
1）Execute#wgethttp://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/linux/tbs-
tuner-firmwares_v1.0.tar.bz2
2）#tar jxvf tbs-tuner-firmwares_v1.0.tar.bz2 -C /lib/firmware/ （ See

screenshot below.）

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3 Execute all the above commands, you should have successfully completed
installation. Reboot your computer and input the following commands to
detect if you have done it.
# reboot
# dmesg | grep 6904
4 If you would like to get latest source program, please enter the “tbsdriver
/media” directory and execute the following commands to update the drivers.
(See the commands below.）
# cd media
# git remote update
# git pull
# cd ../media_build
# git remote update
# git pull
# make
# sudo make install
# reboot

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Open Source install tips

1./bin/sh: 1: lsdiff: not found
#sudo apt-get install patchutils
2.you may need to install the Proc::ProcessTable module

#sudo apt-get install libproc-processtable-perl
3.fatal error: drx39xyj/drx39xxj.h: No such file or directory

#mkdir -p v4l/drx39xyj
#cp v4l/drx39xxj.h v4l/drx39xyj/
4.Can not find the 6909 firmware

#Do not forget the firmware install steps
5.If you find module load errors like "module has wrong symbol version" means that
there still are old modules from your previous media tree installation (usually duplica
ted modules in two different places).
#sudo rm -rf lib/modules/uname -r/kernel/drivers/media/*
6.Cannot use CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG: -fstack-protector-

strong not supported by compiler
#sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
#sudo apt-get update
#sudo apt-get install gcc-4.9 g++-4.9
#sudo rm /usr/bin/gcc sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.9 /usr/bin/gcc`

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FAQ
Linux:
1. How to install the driver
Closed Driver install steps:
http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=9875
Open Source Detail steps:
2. Can not compile the driver in CentOS 7

check your kernel version:
uname -a
Link the build folder .Go to this folder such as :

cd /lib/modules/3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64/
ln -sf /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64/ build
Then install the driver as normal steps
3. How to use tvheadend.

Check this:
4. How to use astra.

Script Guide:
Video Guide:
5. How to use OSCAM with tvheadend

6. How to use mumudvb

http://www.mumudvb.net/doc/mumudvb-1.7.3/QUICKSTART.html
http://www.mumudvb.net/doc/mumudvb-1.7.3/README_CONF.html
Windows:
1. Windows 7 x64 Code 52 issue
Please check this guide:
1. Does your driver support windows 10?

No problem you can feel free using windows xp,vista/7/8/10
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2. Can’t watch the HD channels,only picture or only audio.

Make sure that you have installed the right video and audio decoder.
3. Where I can get the TSReader dll support?

You can get it on our download page :
http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/common/tsreader-
bdasource_v1.0.8.7-20150604.zip
4. Where I can get the StreamReader dll support?

You can get it on our download page :
http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/common/streamreader-
dll_v1.0.0.3.zip
5. Why can’t use it with Windows Server 2008?

Please install this patch for your windows server 2008:
http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/common/win2008_bda.zip
6. The card don't been detected by motherboard.

Please refer to attached pics to change some pcie setting on BIOS and update the
BIOS to the latest version. make sure set the PCI-E link speed to Gen1 like this ,as
most users after set the BIOS it can detect our card so you can have a try.
7. How to set dvbdream support 8 diseqc?

Open “Options” item then select “Diseqc”, Diseqc Switch Type “None”.
After add one satellite,open “Properties”, can set diseqc port by “Uncommitted”
from 0 to 15
8. What kind of antenna to use(DVBT/DVBT2 Card)?

Our all dvbt/t2 card just support the parasitic antenna. If you use the active antenna,
you need supply power to antenna.
9. Whether support CI+?

Our all CI card just support the CI, do no support CI+.

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2 Check hardware whether is detect by your PC

TBS Tuner Card User Guide

2.1 Download TBS6904 Windows Driver from Our Website

2）download and then unzip TBS 6904 Windows driver

4）Click “Next” “Install” “Finish” to complete installation

TBS Tuner Card User Guide

TBS Tuner Card User Guide

3 Play Software Installation

Here is a link is for downloading Player software. Fordetailed installation

TBS Tuner Card User Guide

TBS Ubuntu Closed-Source Driver Installation Manual

TBS Tuner Card User Guide

4) Command# unzip tbs-linux-drivers_v160630.zip ( Unzip the downloading “ZIP”

1.4 Unzip “bz2” file

TBS Tuner Card User Guide

1.5 Enter the directory of unzipped “linux-tbs-drivers”

2 Check system kernel and install the corresponding file according to

your operating system.

TBS Tuner Card User Guide

3 Delete the following system kernel media driver.（See screenshot below.）

3.1) # sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/

TBS Tuner Card User Guide

for x86 kernel 2.6.x (x86 32 bit installations of kernel 2.6.x):

6.1 # dmesg | grep frontend

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TBS Ubuntu Open Source Driver Installation Manual

2.1 # mkdir tbsdriver (See screenshot below.）

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TBS Tuner Card User Guide

# make dir DIR=../media

2.5 # make distclean（See screenshot below.）

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2.6 # make -j4

2.7 # make install (See screenshot below.）

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2）#tar jxvf tbs-tuner-firmwares_v1.0.tar.bz2 -C /lib/firmware/ （ See

TBS Tuner Card User Guide

TBS Tuner Card User Guide

Open Source install tips

2.you may need to install the Proc::ProcessTable module

3.fatal error: drx39xyj/drx39xxj.h: No such file or directory

4.Can not find the 6909 firmware

6.Cannot use CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG: -fstack-protector-

TBS Tuner Card User Guide

2. Can not compile the driver in CentOS 7

Link the build folder .Go to this folder such as :

3. How to use tvheadend.

4. How to use astra.

5. How to use OSCAM with tvheadend

6. How to use mumudvb

1. Does your driver support windows 10?

2. Can’t watch the HD channels,only picture or only audio.

3. Where I can get the TSReader dll support?

4. Where I can get the StreamReader dll support?

5. Why can’t use it with Windows Server 2008?

6. The card don't been detected by motherboard.

7. How to set dvbdream support 8 diseqc?

8. What kind of antenna to use(DVBT/DVBT2 Card)?

9. Whether support CI+?

TBS Tuner Card User Guide