From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-yx0-f175.google.com ([209.85.210.175]:37771 "EHLO mail-yx0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752170AbZIGSOZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 14:14:25 -0400 Received: by yxe5 with SMTP id 5so5092389yxe.33 for ; Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:14:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AA54D9F.7060301@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:14:55 +1000 From: Jed MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Media Mailing List Subject: Re: PCI/e with dual DVB-T + AV-in? References: <4A9F5B73.8060004@gmail.com> <4A9FFD29.7090607@gmail.com> <37219a840909031126w2cbde9e2ld3cbffe8dfa64353@mail.gmail.com> <4AA0A317.6030605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AA0A317.6030605@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >>>> Hi Ya'll, >>>> >>>> Going on response levels thus far I'm not expecting much :-D but I was >>>> wondering if someone could possibly help me out here. >>>> >>>> Is there anything with half-decent driver support that is PCI/e, >>>> and has >>>> dual DVB-T + A/V-in?* >>>> As a bonus it would be dual Hybrid and have hardware encode, but I >>>> wouldn't expect either to work at this stage. >>>> >>>> I'm still trawling through mail-lists & wiki's etc, so I may yet >>>> find the >>>> best solution, but I was hoping some might already know. >>>> Any advice or even just a response to chastise me is greatly >>>> appreciated! >>>> :-D >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Jed >>>> *Is HVR-2200 the only option? >>>> I wish there was something with better AV-in but it might end-up >>>> being my >>>> final choice. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Jed wrote: >>> I've stopped looking for an alternative card, going to have a crack at >>> getting my 7162-based device working. >>> Still, any suggestions in the meantime are most welcome! I've also >>> decided >>> AV-in isn't that important... >>> So just a known, nicely working PCI/e + dual DVB-T card, having the >>> other >>> features is nice but they needn't be working yet. >>> >>> Wish me luck! :-D >>> >>> >> >> HVR2200 is in well supported now for digital-only. It is a dual tuner >> board using a PCI-E interface. It has A/V capabilities that are not >> *yet* supported in Linux. Don't know when A/V will be supported, but >> it will probably happen, eventually. >> >> It is a dual hybrid, and it does do hardware encode. (although not >> yet in Linux) This probably is the device for you. >> >> To follow the development more closely, see the blog on kernellabs.com >> I hope this helps. >> >> Regards, >> Mike Hi saa7164 devs, once(if) the software support is in place for A/V-in... Do you know if it'd be possible to bypass hw encode and dump uncompressed HD/SD with this card? Or is it limited hardware-wise to even do this? Cheers, Jed