Oliver Schinagl writes: > On 27-11-12 10:33, Ralph Metzler wrote: > > Oliver Schinagl writes: > > > > I'm interested for such information. (I'm looking also for good well supported DVB-S2 device to target multiple satellite) > > > > > > > > I've a question for you Olivier. I don't know that brand. Why going to 1 dualtuner board and the octopus. In the same brand you can also use the Cine S2 that could eventually be expended with a dualtuner board for example. What are the limitation? > > > From what I know, is that the hardware is nearly identical on both setups. > > > > > > The Cine S2 is an octopus with only 2 connectors (which allows 4 extra > > > tuners) and has 2 onboard tuners, so 6 tuners maximum. > > > > > > The Octopus is ONLY the bridge chip (in FPGA form strangly in the latest > > > revisions, was the nGene before, driver is the same so maybe they got > > > some IP from micronas to put in the FPGA due to performance/scaling > > > issues?) but has 4 connectors for expansion cards. So you can connect 8 > > > > Micronas has nothing to do with the new bridge. nGene is no longer in production > > and it also lacked inputs and outputs to support more tuners/CIs.\ > Well the new FPGA based design uses the nGene driver, so it at the very No it does not. It uses the ddbridge driver. > least is compatible on an API front. It would sound somewhat reasonable > that either they re-implemented part of the chip or got some secret IP > from micronas ;) No, it has nothing to do with Micronas. > > In any case, there is an FPGA on the board that behaves 'like' the nGene :) No, it does not. I do not know how you get this idea!?!?! ddbridge is a completely different driver. Regards, Ralph _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
