On 24 June 2011 12:57, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Em 24-06-2011 06:51, Oliver Endriss escreveu: > > Hi, > > > > On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:31:08 Sébastien RAILLARD wrote: > >> Dear all, > >> > >> I'm looking at the Octopus DVB cards system from Digital Devices for a while > >> as their system seems to be very interesting > >> > >> Here is link with their products: > >> http://shop.digital-devices.de/epages/62357162.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/6 > >> 2357162/Categories > >> > >> The good points I have found: > >> > >> * They support most of the common DVB standards: DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S and > >> DVB-S2 > >> * They are moderately priced > >> * There is a CAM support with a CI adapter for unscrambling channels > >> * They are using the now de-facto standard PCI-Express bus > >> * The new Octopus system is using a LATTICE PCI-Express bridge that seems to > >> be more future proof than the previous bridge Micronas APB7202A > >> * They seem to be well engineered ("Designed and manufactured in Germany" as > >> they say!) > >> > >> And now the doubts : > >> > >> * The DVB-C/T frontend driver is specific to this system and is very new, so > >> as Devin said one week ago, it's maybe not yet production ready > >> * The way the CAM is supported break all the existing userland DVB > >> applications (gnutv, mumudvb, vlc, etc.) > >> * There isn't so much information about the Digital Devices company and > >> their products roadmap (at least in English) > >> > >> So, my two very simple questions to the developers who worked on the drivers > >> (I think Oliver and Ralph did) and know the product: > >> * How you feel the future about the Octopus driver? > > > > The drivers work fine. I am not aware of any problems. > > > > All Digital Devices cards and tuner variants are supported by the driver > > http://linuxtv.org/hg/~endriss/media_build_experimental > > > > ddbridge (Lattice bridge): > > - Octopus (all variants) > > - cineS2 v6 > > - DuoFlex S2 (stv0900 + stv6110 + lnbp21) > > - DuoFlex C/T (Micronas DRXK + NXP TDA18271C2) > > > > ngene bridge: > > - cineS2 (v4,v5), Satix S2 Dual > > - PCIe bridge, mini PCIe bridge > > - DuoFlex S2 (stv0900 + stv6110 + lnbp21) > > - DuoFlex C/T (Micronas DRXK + NXP TDA18271C2) > > > > For a German description, see > > http://www.vdr-portal.de/board16-video-disk-recorder/board85-hdtv-dvb-s2/105803-aktuelle-treiber-für-octopus-ddbridge-cines2-ngene-ddbridge-duoflex-s2-duoflex-ct-sowie-tt-s2-6400 > > > > From an operational point of view, the driver is ready for the kernel. > > Unfortunately I did not have the time yet to clean up the coding-style. > > There are thousands of coding-style issues waiting to be fixed... > > Hi Oliver, > > If it is ok for you, I have here a few devices with DRXK that I'm seeking for > some time to work with. I'll probably have some time this weekend for them, > so I can do the CodingStyle cleanups, if it is ok for you. > > Cheers, > Mauro. > -- Do you have a Terratec Cinergy 2400i? It belongs to the ngene family but has PLL tuners. http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TerraTec_Cinergy_2400i_DVB-T There are some drivers floating on the net that I have got to work in Ubuntu 8.04 but the current ngene drivers has moved on a long way and left it behind. Si. -- 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
