Re: [linux-dvb] Most stable DVB-S2 PCI Card?

["Magnus Hörlin" <magnus@alefors.se>]

Jonas Kvinge wrote:
> Manu Abraham wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Bob Ingraham <bobi@brin.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> What is the most stable DVB-S2 PCI card?
>>>
>>> I've read through the wiki DVB-2 PCI section, but am not confident after reading this what the answer is.
>>>
>>> Running Fedora Core 10 at the moment, but am willing to upgrade to 11 or perform custom patches to get something going.
>>>
>>> No need for CI or DiSEQ support, just highly stable/reliable DVB-2 tuning/reception under Linux.
>>>
>>> Any recommendations would be most appreciated!
>>>
>>>       
>> If you don't need the CI part, The TT S2-1600 is a 2nd generation DVB-S2 PCI
>> card with great performance (supports Symbol rates upto 60MSPS), with support
>> out of the box from the v4l-dvb tree.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Manu
>>     
>
> I think I will try that card. Is the card tested to be working by many?
>
>
> Jonas
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>   
I have four of them and they work perfectly, but not out of the box from
the v4l-dvb tree. If it's patched with the patches posted on this list a
few weeks ago by Andreas Regel (or used with his repo at
http://powarman.dyndns.org/hg/v4l-dvb) it locks perfectly on every
transonder on 1.0W, without them it does not. I also have an S2-3200 and
a NOVA-HD-S2 but they can't handle all transponders symbol rates so I
highly recommend the S2-1600. Bought them for <€50 in Germany.

/Magnus H