From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com ([209.85.220.218]:49650 "EHLO mail-fx0-f218.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753246AbZGFTMD (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:12:03 -0400 Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so4368663fxm.37 for ; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A524C80.3010102@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:12:00 +0200 From: Claes Lindblom MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Best stable DVB-S2 cards References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jens.Peder.Terjesen@devoteam.com wrote: > > -----sacha wrote: ----- > > >To: claesl@gmail.com > >From: sacha > >Sent by: linux-dvb-bounces@linuxtv.org > >Date: 22-06-2009 21:21 > >cc: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org > >Subject: [linux-dvb] Best stable DVB-S2 cards > > > >Claes > >Forget all that has with stability to do on Linux, it will never > >work! > >It is my experience after three years of desperate trying. I have the > >same card and some others. Sometimes they works sometimes no. 24 > >hours > >running is called High Availability in IT world and can be assured > >only > >by the commercial solutions. Believe me, I spent 14 years in > >commercial > >Unix and know what I am talking about. > > > >KR > > > >>Hi, > >>I currently have a Azurewave AD-SP400 CI (Twinhan VP-1041) DVB-S2 > >>card > >>but I'm not sure if it > >>that stable to have it running 24h every day on a server. > >>I'm looking for a good DVB-S2 card that works out of the box in > >Linux > >>kernel, does anyone have any good > >>recommendations, both with or without CI. It's important that it is > >>stable so I don't have to restart the server. > >>I'm running Ubuntu Server 9.04 64-bit with kernel 2.6.28-11-server. > > > > > > > I have three Hauppauge HVR-4000. Two that have been used for DVB-S for > about one year and one for DVB-S2 for about half a year without any > stability issues. > In the beginning it was a little fiddly with patching v4l-dvb, but > support for this card was included in v4l-dvb last autumn and in the > 2.6.28 kernel in November or December last year. > Thats sounds really good, does it work well with DVB-S2 and Mythtv? By the way to use them in the same computer? What's the status of Technotrend TT 1600 and 3200 in the main dvb-tree? And how about the issues noted in this thread http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2009-February/031779.html ?