Thread: QQ-Box USB DVB-S Tuner - Unknown Device?

Ok..make sense...I will be looking for primestar dish as you suggested. I think 36 inches dish should be ok for the KU . Thanks for the info..

I tried 2 QQbox on win7 and it is impossible. The driver sucks hotdogs.
Other problems are the slow startup time for the QQbox in DVBdream and the BDA driver confusion it causes in media center when configuring.

Another QQbox problem is that it just wont tune some channels. The signal is fine and I disabled all switching. Other tuners work fine but QQ just cant tune many channels, seems to be aprox 1/7 that wont work. It looks like it has a marginal signal because it squelches and sometimes gives a flash of the picture.

Hi Guys

i am from Turkey. I bought this 2 months ago and tried to run on 32 bit xp but i failure. And then i updated its driver and have a sound. I use progdvb, last version. After that i changed the video encoder and gain video picture. It is works but this product is bad especially sharp tuner but cheap. One time my system is fault because of this. Thanks God i have a image(with nortonghost) and i set up my xp again easily.

Finally thanks your advice and also sharing.

Welcome mucit,

Thanks for your report.

I received the BSOD a few times as well. And when media center is doing the tuner check, if you use DVBlink you need to unplug the tuner right before you cancel the tuner detection . . or it will hang.

After spending some time trying to watch DVB with the QQbox, there are constant picture breakups and audio squelches. The appearance and the price of the QQbox is great but it is not really of any use in function. Maybe the one I am using is bad?

Hi Mike-

It could be a bad unit.
They are working on a new driver for windows and one for linux.
There current driver does bsod windows alot and does not reset the tuner sometimes.

Originally Posted by 1ADAM12

Hi Mike-

It could be a bad unit.
They are working on a new driver for windows and one for linux.
There current driver does bsod windows alot and does not reset the tuner sometimes.

Is it confirmed they're working on a Linux driver? I've seen plenty of suggestions they may work on a Linux driver or are considering it (although they seem to have been considering it for a rather long time) but never that they've stated they are working on a Linux driver.

If they are that would be cool. While I'm not a big Linux fan myself, having that flexibility would be useful for a variety of reasons. I don't actually own a QQ Box yet, but the very cheap price particularly for a USB device and given that I don't live in Germany (where people are selling DVB-S cards and boxes all the time on Ebay) makes it very tempting. The somewhat questionable driver quality and the lack of Linux support have been two factors that make me think twice. I don't know whether they'd ever resolve the first one but Linux support would be good.

Edit:

LME said they will be releasing a Linux driver for QQ Box. DISEqC 1.2 may work in this new driver. Chinese New Year holiday has ended now and they will be coming back to work.

Seems I missed this post, good to hear!

I asked about your QQ-box here in Shenzhen. I have reply from Q-box producer:

Stephan,
QQ-Box is appearance and tooling clone of QBox from some garbage companies, the chip and circuit inside is different.

As I understand, this is real clone from clone-makers. This is not OEM product from Prof, TBS or DVBWorld.

Good luck!