On 5/29/07, Michael Krufky <mkrufky@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Markus Rechberger wrote: > > I'm adding Michael, maybe he has some ideas about it. > >> The reason why i asked, is that their other HVR product, the HVR-1600 > >> (different chipset I think), also said "QAM currently not supported", > >> but then they released a beta driver that does. So I am wondering if > >> they are able to update something in the microcode/firmware that will > >> give it this capability. > > > > The other thing is that the 'dmesg' output seems to indicate that the > > tuner and "frontend" chip has this capability (please correct me if I > > am wrong): > Markus & Matthew, > > (cc added to linux-dvb, in case somebody else has the same question.) > > I am missing the original part of the email containing the question, but > I can only assume that the question is, "Can the HVR950 be used to pick > up QAM?" > the discussion is only about that. > The answer is, no. Unfortunately, the Xceive XC3028 silicon tuner is > unable to receive QAM256 digital streams. QAM64 is also used by some cableproviders (eg. in Germany), so seems like it should be possible to get a part of it supported, though we still lack the firmware for this mode. Also the xceive Product spec says "Supports all digital TV standards: ATSC, DVB-T, ISDB-T, DMB-T, DVB-C" Markus > The lgdt3303 demodulator, > however, is able to demodulate QAM256, QAM64, 8VSB and 16VSB. Its only > practical use within the hvr950 is for VSB only. > > Matthew has mentioned the HVR1600 -- This is a completely different > device, using entirely different hardware, and it is a PCI device. On > the bright side, the HVR1600 is able to tune both QAM and VSB, but Linux > support is far from ready. (The right people are working on it, though > :-) ) > > Sorry for the bad news. > > Regards, > > Mike Krufky > > > -- Markus Rechberger _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
