Hi Fredric, Am Donnerstag, den 10.04.2008, 14:54 +0200 schrieb Frederic CAND:> hermann pitton a écrit :> > Hi,> > > > Am Mittwoch, den 09.04.2008, 11:29 -0400 schrieb John Drescher:> >> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Frederic CAND <frederic.cand@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> >>> Hi all,> >>>> >>> I'm looking for a good PCI card, supporting Analog input (Composite,> >>> S-Video, Pal/Secam Tuner) and providing MPEG2/TS.> >>>> >>> We were using KNC1 TVStation DVR cards until now (w/ saa6752hs chip) on> >>> the servers we build but we have to change (card status is "end of> >>> life") and are looking for similar cards.> >>>> >>> Does anybody have a hint if such a card exist or not ?> >>>> >>> Hardware MPEG2 encoding (TS encapsulation) is an important matter for> >>> us, to avoid having Software MPEG2 encoding.> >>>> >> Hauppage PVR150> >>> >> John> >>> > > > Frederic, I remember you have contributed to saa7134 empress development> > previously.> > > > Currently, after lots of code changes without any testers, empress> > devices have been always very rare, the support is broken and I try to> > track down last working status.> > > > Did some testing with an unsupported card recently, has also DVB-T, and> > I get everything to work except the encoder.> > > > What kernel version does still work for you?> > > Actually, since recently we were still using kernel 2.6.9, with an old > v4l snapshot (20050426).> > But, due to some changes, we had to change kernel version, and use > 2.6.16.29. Still, to avoid too many changes to occur at the same time, > we wanted to use the same snapshot. We did some minor adaptations for it > to compile against 2.6.16.29.> However, it's working with our same old (but fastly running to its end > of life) KNC1 TV Station DVR based on saa7134, saa6752hs and tda9887. thanks for the report, i might find a starting point from here. > > > > There is also the Behold M6 Extra now.> > http://www.ixbt.com/monitor/behold-m6-extra.shtml> > > > But this one fails, reported by Anton, even on 2.6.18, which seems to me> > the last kernel most likely still functional.> > > > I have tried on a Creatix CTX946. (saa7134 card=12 works,except encoder)> > http://www.creatix.de/produkte/multimedia/ctx946.htm> > > > But I don't get a valid format setup, which very likely is caused by the> > card is not hacked/correctly_configured yet.> > Thanks for these links. Do you know if the chipsets used are running to > their end of life or not ? Unfortunately not, but all the devices mentioned are on a similar levelfor my view, means decoder chips and tuners are compatible in the samerow like MK3, MK4, MK5 and saa7134, saa7135 and as long in productionprobably still available. > > > > Beside ivtv, the cx88 driver has also lots of cards with mpeg encoder,> > so called blackbird design, but from what I hear the pvr150 and similar> > are for sure well supported.> > Yeah, but our requirements are not just MPEG2 Hardware encoding, but > MPEG2/TS Hardware encoding (MPEG2/PS would be painful for us). How can > we know this prior to buying cards and check ?> We'll be trying the HVR 1300 soon, however.> I'm just scratching that stuff for debug, and I'm not even aware of sucha restriction and it is long time ago I looked a little into it. Maybe Hans, Steve or Mike can give you better recommendations. Thanks,Hermann _______________________________________________linux-dvb mailing listlinux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
