Hi,
Since I'm not getting any feedback about the TechnoTrend DVB-T 1500 PCI
and it's cam module, I'm thinking of going a different route. DVB-C. My
ISP actually does transmit unencrypted DVB-C (if you pay for TV) so I
may as well switch to DVB-C for now.
There are two potential devices I see.
Technisat CableStar HD2 [1]
This card may be slow PCI, but as far as I know far and far plenty of
bandwith for DVB-C right? You can grab the entire transport-stream and
still have BW left to spare? It is only a single tuner however (which is
ok, the DVB-C signal is all on one transponder/frequency).
I see all modules mentioned from the wiki in the kernel, so while the
wiki is outdated, it should work. But have people got experience with
the reliability of this? Does it work and work fast?
The hardware cam is nice to have, but completely useless. Unless I could
get a USB DVB-* device and feed it's transport stream through THAT cam
interface.
Terratec Cinergy T PCIe Dual [2]
This card is also very interesting. It would steal one of the viewer
available PCI-e sockets, it does feature a dual tuners. I believe you
can tune either one DVB-C channel (+one analog channel, but that is
really not important at all) or TWO dvb-T channels. This one does not
feature a cam, but for DVB-C that is not important and for DVB-T,
softcam could be the solution.
Anybody have any experience with this card? I found _some_ references in
the 3.3.7 kernel I have on my desktop atm but appearantly 3.4.3 should
work better.
I'm sorry for asking here, but I'm not quite sure where else to ask for
decent supported cards, and my wallet has run dry from buying badly
supported crap :(
[1] http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Technisat_CableStar_HD2
[2] http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TerraTec_Cinergy_T_PCIe_dual
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