Re: Info

[Adriano Gigante <adrigiga@yahoo.it>]

Hi Devin,

...do you think we will have our stick (0072/terratec hybrid xs fm) 
working before FIFA World Cup?


Thanks
Adriano


Il 14/02/2010 18:33, Florent NOUVELLON ha scritto:
> Hi Devin,
>
> Did you with Prahal advanced the 0072/terratec hybrid xs fm support in
> linux-dvb driver ?
>
> If you need any kind of help (testing, or whatever) feel free to ask me.
>
> Regards,
> Florent
>
>
> 2010/1/18 Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com
> <mailto:mrechberger@gmail.com>>
>
>     On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:50 PM, fogna <fogna80@gmail.com
>     <mailto:fogna80@gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > Il 01/18/2010 06:33 PM, Markus Rechberger ha scritto:
>      >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Devin Heitmueller
>      >> <dheitmueller@kernellabs.com
>     <mailto:dheitmueller@kernellabs.com>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >>> Hello Markus,
>      >>>
>      >>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Markus Rechberger
>      >>> <mrechberger@gmail.com <mailto:mrechberger@gmail.com>> wrote:
>      >>>
>      >>>> Just fyi there's a hardware bug with the 0072/terratec hybrid
>     xs fm
>      >>>> (cx25843 - xc5000):
>      >>>>
>      >>>> http://img91.imageshack.us/i/00000004qf8.png/
>      >>>> http://img104.imageshack.us/i/00000009cp4.png/
>      >>>>
>      >>>> nothing that can be fixed with the driver.
>      >>>>
>      >>> Interesting.  If it cannot be fixed with the driver, how does the
>      >>> Windows driver work then?  Is this some sort of premature hardware
>      >>> failure that occurs (after which point it is irreversible)?
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >> conexant cx25843 - xceive xc5000 failure (as what I've heard
>     conexant
>      >> laid off people in that area years ago while xceive (see their
>     driver
>      >> changelog if you have access to it) tried to fix it with their
>      >> firmware but didn't succeed), it also happens with windows. Those
>      >> screenshots are taken from a videoclip
>      >> it was of course a big problem for business customers (almost all of
>      >> them happily switched away from it)
>      >> This is the same retail hardware as everyone else uses out there. XS
>      >> FM is not being sold anymore.
>      >> I only know one company in Ireland still

ing with it, also in
>      >> terms of videoquality I'd avoid that combination.
>      >>
>      >> Markus
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>> Thanks for taking the time to point this out though, since I could
>      >>> totally imagine banging my head against the wall for quite a while
>      >>> once I saw this.
>      >>>
>      >>> Devin
>      >>>
>      >>> --
>      >>> Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs
>      >>> http://www.kernellabs.com
>      >>>
>      >>>
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>      >>
>      > Hi Markus, thanks for the info, i didn't know of this hardware
>     problem,
>      > i have this usb stick and at the moment all works normally, now i
>     know
>      > when it will be time to replace it :)
>      >
>
>     it happens sporadically sometimes 1 time/5 minutes sometimes 1
>     time/10 minutes.
>     I think in windows it sometimes drops frames it also happens there and
>     can be seen with VLC
>     maybe some codecs also compensate it a little bit. There's no generic
>     rule about this the xc5000
>     overdrives the videodecoder (it's not empia related issue actually
>     moreover conexant/xceive)
>
>     Markus
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