Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Full featured DVB cards (Siemens/Technotrend AV7110 design) > apparently have trouble with receiving channels at very low > symbol rates. An example is > > TVS Teleport > Bonn;DMV:11535:vC34:S1.0W:5632:308+8190:256=eng,257=eng:0:2:1:65535:1:0 > > with a symbol rate of 5632 (that transponder isn't always on, though). > My FF DVB card can't receive this channel, so I have to receive it > with a budget card, which is able to handle this symbol rate. > > Unfortunately both my FF card and my budget card report the same > minimum symbol rate: > symbol_rate_min 1000000 > > So I'm afraid I can't use this to make that decision. > > Is there anything else I could use, or do I just have to > check for the existence of a video and audio device (which > indicates that there is an MPEG decoder) and in that case > refuse to switch to a channel with a symbol rate of, say, > less than 10000 (in VDR's channels.conf notation)? I can't help with your actual problem, but here it appears some FF cards support rates 1-8, some cards do not: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_devices_DVB-S -- Anssi Hannula
