- Some user feedback about ttpci and ttbudget removal... Hi everyone. First I have to apologize for the late reaction and hope it is not too late now. I'm primary a user and normally not subscribed to this list. I just got aware of the possible removal of the ttpci and ttbudget driver by a thread in the german "vdr-portal.de" forum (1). I own a several different of the SAA7146 based cards and use them daily in my VDR-system. In germany many channels are free-to-air in the DVB-S version only. DVB-S-Cards are still useful today, at least in combination with a DVB-S2 Card. Just like DVB-C and DVB-S2 Cards, AFAIK are their capabilities still up to date. Only the DVB-T cards are already obsolete (al least in germany). My system contains different types of DVB-S/S2 cards, SAA7146 based and others. All carefully selected to have mainline kernel support. I never expected the tt* drivers will be removed so early. Replacing the SAA7146 is not a real option. DVB-cards with kernel support are rare, still expensive and now a days hard to obtain too. And I don't want to scrap working hardware. My plans are to use this cards as long as the DVB-S situation doesn't change. That will be at least 2 more years. The SAA7146 cards were very popular in the VDR-Community, there must be more users out there. I suspect, most of them will notice the driver removal, when the cards stop working after a update. Initially I thought an API upgrade is not a big deal, but it seems to be a mayor change to the driver. Unfortunately that exceeds my skills. But I may provide help with testing on the DVB-S FF and budget-cards if desired. Best Regards
