From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:61759 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751271Ab0EaCB6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2010 22:01:58 -0400 Received: by vws9 with SMTP id 9so11202vws.19 for ; Sun, 30 May 2010 19:01:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C031951.8070800@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 22:05:05 -0400 From: Emmanuel MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TBS 6980 Dual Tuner PCI-e card.....not in Wiki at all? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@bombadil.infradead.org Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Konstantin Dimitrov a écrit : > hello, i can't comment on your questions about the Wiki, but i made > the driver for TBS 6980 and i can ensure you that the driver will be > released as open-source under GPL as soon as i have permission to do > that, but compared to other cards at least even at the moment you can > use the card in Linux and it's very easy to add support for it using > the binary modules even to the latest V4L code from repository and so > those "blobs" are actually not so big limitation. > > also, you are very wrong about the price - as far as i know retails > price is less than 200 USD, for example TBS online shop gives a price > of 158.99 USD: > > http://www.buydvb.net/pcie-dvbs2-dual-tuner-tv-card_p11.html > > and i believe the dual DVB-S2 card with price of 1000 USD that you're > talking about is the NetUP one and not the TurboSight TBS 6980 dual > DVB-S2 card. > I have two questions for you: do these board support (or will support in the near future) a CI interface for pay TV, and what is the best symbol rate they can achieve in DVB-S2 (I think I need QPSK only but could be 8PSK) RELIABLY. TIA Bye Manu