Hi Michael, On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 16:12 -0700, Michael Finch wrote: > Hi All, > > I have noticed that there is significant support for the "Technotrend > TT-budget S1500" PCI card, which I am excited to see. > I have also noticed that there is very little support for the > "Technotrend TT-budget S1401" card. > > I am curious if the reason for the lack of support for the S-1401 card > is simply because nobody has gotten around to developing LINUX support > for it or if there is a good reason to go with the S-1500 card > instead. > > I have a client with a new project that requires using one of these > cards (or something similar). Is the S-1500 a better choice? A driver for the S-1401 was written about 12-18 months ago. I haven't tried it for some time, and I'm not sure of the exact status - there were a few discussions last year on the mailing list to do with tweaks to the signal strength, etc. - but last time I did use it it was very stable and did what I wanted it to do. If you search the archives for S-1401 or TDA10086 (the tuner chip), you should find out plenty of information. We chose the card primarily because it was low-profile, but I think it is a fair bit cheaper than the 1500. The project ended up using Windows rather than Linux, but as far as I know, the cards themselves have been very reliable. Cheers, Chris -- Chris Malarky chris at malarky dot org _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
