Jed wrote: > On 24/05/10 4:18 AM, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Jed wrote: >>> Ideally it'd be dual DVB-C, the only one I've found is more than dual >>> DVB-C& is far too expensive. >> >> If you need two receivers but can only spare up to one PCI or PCIe slot, >> why not use two USB or FireWire attached receivers? >> >> FireWire ones seem to be out of production now though and weren't >> exactly on the cheap side. OTOH one can drive up to 3 DVB FireWire >> receivers on a single FireWire bus; and for those who need even more >> there are dual link FireWire PCI and PCIe cards readily available. > > Thanks for offering your thoughts Stefan. > Any specific recommendations? > > Ideally I want two or more dvb-c tuners in a pci/e form-factor. > > If there's FW or USB tuners that are mounted onto a PCI/e card, work > well in Linux, & are relatively cheap, then I'd love to know! I don't have an overview over USB tuners. FireWire tuners are (or rather were) available as external boxes as well as cards that could be mounted either in a PCI(e) slot --- but still had to be connected to an internal or external FireWire port then --- or in a floppy disk bay. One tuner took up one slot or one bay. Slot for CAM included. As I said, the FireWire tuners were _not_ cheap, compared to average USB tuners or PCI tuners. Maybe used one can be found to a somewhat better price. FireWire DVB tuners that were sold in the past by different vendors were similar in hardware AFAIK, but only ones from Digital Everywhere (called FireDTV and FloppyDTV) are supported under Linux because DE supplied initial driver code and firmware information. If you go for USB tuners, then I guess that you will also have to use either external devices /or/ drive-bay mounted devices /or/ two PCI(e) slots, since you wrote that you need CAMs --- and I doubt that there is a cheap off-the-shelf solution that crams two CAM slots into a single PCI slot or shares a CAM between tuners... But as I said, I don't have an overview. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- -=-= ==--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
