On Wednesday 20 February 2008, hermann pitton wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 17.02.2008, 21:53 +0100 schrieb Peter Missel: > > Greetings all! > > > > Let me clear things up a bit. > > > > > > First clarification, duo versus hybrid. > > > > Are "duo" cards equipped with two independent tuners that can both > > > > be used at the same time? > > > > Are "hybrid" cards necessarily equipped with digital and analogue > > > > tuners? Can a two tuner card be both a duo and a hybrid, if one > > > > tuner is digital the other is analogue and they can both be used at > > > > the same time? > > > > LifeView are using two vendor IDs - 4E42h for all (!) their OEMs, and > > their own one for LifeView branded cards. Hence we need two PCI ID > > entries for everything, each pair pointing back to the same card data. > > > > Then, card types. > > > > The analog-only and "hybrid" have one single tuner, for DVB-T or > > analog. The "Duo" cards have two tuner frontends, one for DVB-T and the > > other for analog. > > "Trio" cards add a DVB-S frontend, which cannot be used at the same > > time as the DVB-T frontend. Like the Duo, these can run one digital and > > one analog stream in parallel. > > > > Finally, card shapes. > > > > Each card type comes in CardBus, PCI, and MiniPCI shape. The flavors > > are compatible, so that again, the PCI ID data point back to the same > > card entry for e.g. the PCI and CardBus Duo. > > > > The card type/shape combinations are distinctly identified by their > > subsystem ID. No need to guesstimate anything. > > > > That's the plan at least. > > > > regards, > > Peter > > Hi Peter! > > Your plan is fine so far. > > We might add some more comments to group devices obviously together, > since those looking first time at it are a bit lost. > > For such i2c IR limits, we have your and Eddi's comments. > > Since we can't help it easily, Peter D. should suggest the older version > of the MSI A/D for auto detection. It won't make anything more worse on > that not fully clear Vivanco stuff, except Hartmut might have ideas. > > Cheers, > Hermann I think that you just suggested something. I'm going to stand at the side and nod my head. ;-) What should I do to make it an official suggestion? -- sig goes here... Peter D. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
