On 21/04/07, Mario Rossi <mariofutire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, I would like to buy the same card to receive DVB-C from Virgin Media in the UK. It seems that this is the only DVB-C USB card supported by Linux (and one of the very few existing). I've sent recently a couple of mails to the mailing list trying to get some info about it, but they went both unanswered. I've found the card on eBay for 80 EUR, but I would like to know whether (and how) it works before proceeding.
Hi Mario, As I said, it does work, but I don't think that its working correctly. I have tried under Gentoo and under Ubuntu Fiesty with 2.6.20 kernel, and under both, things start to eventually jitter slightly and every few seconds frames are dropped. This doesn't seem to happen under windows for some reason. The only difference that I can physically see is the LED colour on the front. I am not sure if USB 1.1 is capable of handling the mpeg2 stream. I suspect that windows is applying some compression that allows the stream to be able to be played without any speed issue. Short of looking at the module source and try to contact the original author, I am not sure where to find any further info. The reason that I have one of these is because PCI is becoming quite rare these days. Most of the latest motherboards don't even have any standard PCI slots anymore. They only have PCIe, and it seems that there are no supported PCIe cards on the market yet. My advice at the moment would be go with the PCI TT C-1500. I have a C-2300 and it works flawlessly.
Btw, which cable provider do you have?
Not sure I want to say anything about this. Some providers do not allow "other devices" to be plugged in, but these cards should work with any provider that uses the dvb-c standard ;) _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
