On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Jed <jedi.theone@xxxxxxxxx> 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. >>>> >>> >>> We have USB DVB-C/T hybrid devices which are supported with Linux. >>> >>> http://support.sundtek.com/index.php/topic,4.0.html (the driver is >>> mostly independent from >>> Linux Kernels). >>> >>> Aside of that we just made it work on a Dreambox 800 (300 Mhz MIPS as >>> well, and looking forward >>> to support other platforms as well). >>> >>> >>> http://sundtek.com/shop/Digital-TV-Sticks/Sundtek-MediaTV-Digital-Home-DVB-CT.html >>> >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Markus >> >> Thanks but I'd prefer PCI/e form-factor... >> If there's something fw or usb-based x2, & squeezed into that >> form-factor, I'm very interested! > > I may only have room for 1x pci/e dvb-c card (hopefully one that has two > single fw tuners mounted). > So I may still look at USB based tuners like yours... > There are also MiniPCIe USB DVB-C/T solutions available, although we have only seen single PCIe - MiniPCIe solutions yet (and those required an additional internal USB connection for the USB part) Another option might be a PCI/PCIe USB Bridge + USB DVB-C, we tested 3x USB DVB-C devices with a notebook at the same time (maybe 4 are possible, our test PC only had 3x USB Slots back then). Markus -- 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
