In article <5f5o89-7n7.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write: >Hello Hi! >I use VDR a few years, but lately I changed my system into ITX (AMD >Brazos) and so changed PCI DVB-S2 card into USB. Additionaly I has >bought DVB-T tuner. >While buying hardware I was sure I buy hardware which is supported >in-kernel, so no need to hunt for driver. >Unfortunatelly every from three card I have doesn't work properly. > >The first: Terratec Cinergy S2 USB HD. >Kernel has drivers, but only for the first revision. Second revision >which I have need a patch. Patch is even on linux-media >http://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/10294/ , but isn't finished so no >hope to have it in kernel soon. >Anyway I have applied it's modified version from >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=653026 to kernel 3.2 >and it's almost work. Almost, because sometimes recording becames >unplayable. Recording recors eveything, but I can play only some part of >file from beginning. The rest is unplayable. > >Looking for something widely used I choosed Pinnacle PCTV SAT HDTV 452E >PRO USB. Problems with it i've described in thread: "[PATCH, RFC] >STB0899 signal strength (pctv452e, others too?)" > I have been using this card on FreeBSD as well as its `cousin' TT S2-3600 which uses the same driver with various versions of webcamd which used various versions of the Linux v4l/dvb tree (media_tree), first with bits from s2-liplianin merged in and since (I think) 3.2 using the pctv452e.c driver that was committed to the vanilla media_tree, and rarely ever had issues. Currently I'm using webcamd 3.5.0.2 which uses a snapshot of the for_3.5 branch of media_tree... http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/webcamd http://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git/shortlog/aa6d5f29534a6d1459f9768c591a7a72aadc5941 >The last miss was buying USB DVB-T stick based on Af9015. Generally it >works, but only a few minutes. I suspect it overheats... > >So I ask: if somebody has one of cards above working, please give me a >note with which kernel and with which driver it does work. > >Also I wold welcome advice, which from those rather cheap USB cards >works without any problems on stock linux kernel. I have been testing various other usb tuners (mainly dvb-t) on FreeBSD with webcamd (which as mentioned above uses linux' media_tree), see my (nox) entries on this page on the FreeBSD wiki: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat Besides the pctv452e/TT S2-3600 dvb-s2 tuners which _I_ had not many issues with I successfully tested the following dvb-t tuners using dib0700 hardware: PCTV NanoStick 73e SE (solo) [single tuner] Hauppauge Nova-TD model 1172 [dual tuner] The Sony PlayTV which was mentioned later in this thread seems to use dib0700 hardware too, but at least here it seems to be much more expensive than the Nova-TD. (And the two af9015 tuners I tested didn't overheat but used to hang themselves up needing a temporary unplug when left running on vdr for a day or less, this _seems_ to be better with recent media_tree versions but I still had to restart at least vdr when it happened. You can reduce the probability for this to happen with vdr tho: change the osd setting "Setup -> DVB -> Update channels" to "names and PIDs" or lower.) HTH, Juergen _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
