Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > I see from the archives [1] that some folks are reporting preliminary > success with the Twinhan 1034 Mantis [2]. I really like the look of this > card, so would be grateful for any comments from anyone using it to > receive UK FTA channels on the Sky satellite, or just about its > performance & stability in general. Is it reliable to use in a > production system with expectations of 95%+ reliability? > > I like look of the Twinhan 1034 because: > - it's available [3] > - it has twin tuners, The 1034 has only a single tuner, based on the MB86A16, while the VP-6090 has (quad tuner) 2xMB86A16 and 2xTDA10046, but the VP-6090 does not have a CI slot. The VP-6090 is not supported yet at the moment. > - it has the CI thingy for future CAM shits & giggles. > > The most obvious alternative for UK satellite is the WinTV Nova-S [4] - > as I understand it that's well supported under Linux, but to record two > channels I need two of them, consuming an additional PCI slot; I think > the Twinhan would be cheaper. Also some of Manu's comments, that "the > Mantis PCI bridge can handle 4 different CA slots" [5] suggest that > Mantis is actually particularly cool hardware - presumably the CAM can > be applied to either channel (or both?) without being physically swapped > out. > The Mantis chip has registers for setting up wait states etc for 4 CI slots, but only one slot is used on the cards that which i have seen. The CI slot on the Mantis is quite different, eventhough a low level CI interface, it advertises that one can use a PCMCIA WLAN card in the DVB CI slot. At this point of writing, I don't know whether this would be feasible in the Linux driver, but not saying that it would be impossible either. Manu _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
