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Dear Customers,
Thank you so much for using TBS products. TBS6704 is a PCI Express TV tuner card
that supports multiple digital TV standards, including DVB-ATSC, which makes a
switchover between different digital TV signals more convenient. Furthermore, with
built-in Common Interface that allows insertion of CAM and smartcard for pay TV, it
becomes your best choice to watch/record digital cable HD TV on PC.
In order to use this item correctly, please read this user manual carefully at the
beginning.

1. Hardware Installation

1.1 Install TBS TV Tuner Card
Power off the computer, remove computer cover and take out cover panel of
PCI-e slot in which you want to put the card. Insert the card in PCI-e slot and fix
card bracket with screw. Make sure the card fit in PCI-e slot tightly. Then put
back computer cover.
Attention:
 When turn off the computer, please do not touch the PC internal components especially the
1.2 Connect TV Signal Cable to the Tuner Card on Your PC
CPU and VGA chip, which has a high temperature with a risk of burns.
 Please be sure to see the manual of PC and peripheral equipment.
1.2 Connect TV Signal Cable to the PCI-e Card on Your PC
TBS6704 User Guide
TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide

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  • Page 1: Hardware Installation

    TBS6704 User Guide Dear Customers, Thank you so much for using TBS products. TBS6704 is a PCI Express TV tuner card that supports multiple digital TV standards, including DVB-ATSC, which makes a switchover between different digital TV signals more convenient. Furthermore, with built-in Common Interface that allows insertion of CAM and smartcard for pay TV, it becomes your best choice to watch/record digital cable HD TV on PC.
  • Page 2: Windows Driver Installation

    1.2 Connect TV Signal Cable to the TV Tuner Card on Your PC Please make sure you properly connect the TV signal to the TV tuner on computer in case of the damage to antenna device. The following TBS6704 TV Signal Table is for your reference.
  • Page 3 2. 2 Download TBS6704 Windows Driver from Our Website (See screenshot below) http://www.tbsiptv.com/tbs6704-atsc--clear-qam-quad-tuner-pcie-card?search=6704 2)download and then unzip TBS 6704 Windows driver 3)Click “TBS_6704_driver_setup”, and then a new window will pop TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 4 4)Click “Next” “Install” “Finish” to complete installation TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 5 “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 “TBS6704 Dual BDA Tuners” that means you do have installed driver correctly. Just display as below: 3.Play Software Installation...
  • Page 6 4.2 # lspci -vvv | grep 6704 (This command detects whether there is “Device 6704”, displaying as the following webui.) 4.3 Set up a directory named “tbsdriver”. Here takes saving the directory on the desktop as an example. # mkdir tbsdriver (See screenshot below.) TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 7 # apt-get install git 4.5 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 TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 8 4.6 Enter the directory of “media build”,execute “ make dir DIR=../media” as the following screenshot. # make dir DIR=../media 4.7 # make distclean(See screenshot below.) TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 9 4.8 # make -j4 4.9 # make install (See screenshot below.) TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 10 Install “firmware” and execute the following command. Please save the file in 4.10 your favorite directory, and then unzip the file to “lib/firmwares” directory as the below screenshot. 1)Execute #wget http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/linux/tbs-tun er-firmwares_v1.0.tar.bz2 2)#tar jxvf tbs-tuner-firmwares_v1.0.tar.bz2 -C /lib/firmware/ ( See screenshot below.) TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 11 /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 TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 12 6.2 Install Software and Run tvheadend-c (See screenshot below.) Launch Firefox browser, input the IP address of your PC and port number 9981 as below, then you can log in tvheadend configuration webui. (See the following screenshot.) TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 13 Log in “Networks”, set the right “Network Name” with product model number and required TV signal via LNB, and then save it.Select ATSC-T network ( See screenshot below.) TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 14 6.5 Log in “Muxes”, setup freq. parameters and save it.(See screenshot below.) TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 15 6.7 Log in “Networks” and then click “Force Scan” to lock TV channels. ( See screenshot below.) 6.8 Log in “Services”, you can live streaming all the TV programs that you would like to watch in “Map services”. (See screenshot below.) TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 16 6.9 Unicast stream settings, program serial numbers (Number 1.2.3.4.5.6...) 6.10 If you want to play ATSC-C, turn off the 6.6 step, turn on the ATSC-C network, and then execute the 6.4~6.9 ATSC-C signal setup TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 17 (See the following screenshot.) 7.4 Create a new “Adapters” and then set the right satellite TV signal and frequency parameters via LNB, finally click “Apply”. (See screenshot below.) TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 18 Finally click “Save” as below. 7.7 Save all the selected TV programs, you will find them in ”Streams”. Then please set the output protocol according to your needs. Finally click “Apply” as below. TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 19 7.8 VLC input set URL TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 20 8. Xtream use settings 8.1 How to upload the stream to xtream-code let's using tvheadend as example Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 21 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 22 Then install the driver as normal steps How to use tvheadend. Check this: http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=9949 How to use astra. Script Guide: http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=9862 Video Guide: http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=9976 How to use OSCAM with tvheadend http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=10049 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 TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...
  • Page 23 Our all dvbt/t2 card just support the parasitic antenna. If you use the active antenna, you need supply power to antenna. 8. Whether support CI+? Our all CI card just support the CI, do no support CI+. TBS6704 Multi Standard Tuner Card User Guide...