Darron Broad wrote: > In message <48F36B32.5060006@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Steven Toth wrote: > > hi. > > <snip> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> thank you Steve and Darron for your work on the repositories today! >>> >>> I have pulled the latest s2-mfe and retested with the HVR4000 on DVB-T, >>> DVB-S, DVB-S2 and analogue TV. >>> >>> No problems so far. >> I'm mutating the subject thread, and cc'ing the public mailing list into >> this conversion. Now is the time to announce the intension to merge >> multi-frontend patches, and show that we have tested and are satisfied >> with it's reliability across many trees. >> >> (For those of you not familiar with the patch set, it adds >> 'multiple-frontends to a single transport bus' support for the HVR3000 >> and HVR4000, and potentially another 7134 based design (the 6 way medion >> board?). >> >> For my part, I was asked to test the cx23885 changes and I responded to >> that with a series of patches to fix some OOPS initialisation errors. >> The MFE patches work correctly with the cx23885 tree now. >> >> Over time I've heard constant suggestions that the patches are ready for >> merge, the cx88 and saa7134 trees are working correctly. Now is the time >> that I need you all to announce this. I need you each in turn to >> describe you testing, and state whether you think the patches are ready >> for merge. >> >> Hans Werner <HWerner4@xxxxxx> >> darron@xxxxxxxx > > The test machine I have here utilises an HVR-4000 and AVERMEDIA > SUPER 007. > > Multi-frontend works with both adapters with the HVR-4000 containing > analogue, DVB-S and DVB-T frontends, the AVERMEDIA solely DVB-T. > > At this time with some further FM updates (see: http://hg.kewl.org/s2-mfe-fm/) > I can now reliably and consitently receive DVB-S/S2, DVB-T, analogue TV > and FM radio on the HVR-4000. DVB-T works on the AVERMEDIA as per > normal. > > Applications which have been under test by include the command > line dvb-utils, dvbtraffic, dvbsnoop, GUI apps kaffeine and > mythtv. No obvious side effects have been witnessed of using > MFE and the applications themselves do not see any difference > except that they are unable to simultaneously open multiple > frontends due to the hardware limitation of such cards. > > A couple of problems exist which may be present in all hybrid cards > is that you are able to concurrently open analogue and DVB-T where > these share the same tuner section. Another issue with shared > tuners is where both analogue and digital sections share a sleep > method which in some circumstances is incompatible. Some common hybrid issues we've seen across many cards, regardless of MFE. > > At this time I am happy with the performance of this MFE card > (HVR-4000) and to be honest, I am looking at attending to other > activities. Bugs where present ought to be picked up by others, > I have done all that has been reasonable to test and determine > that MFE works. Thanks Darron. - Steve _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
