[linux-dvb] Re: Do dvb drivers support Nagravision CA?

2004-07-19 Thread Irek Defee
>Graham Leggett wrote: > Thomas Schorpp wrote >>> Do the DVB drivers support the Nagravision CA system? >> i recommend you buying legal cam hw extensions to your dvb, vdr and >> others should support it. > My question is: once I have bought the above hardware and CA module, and > one I have obt

[linux-dvb] Re: Do dvb drivers support Nagravision CA?

2004-07-19 Thread Irek Defee
To offer another hint about capabilities of the CAM's : Aston is known to have two types of CAM's, one is standard consumer CAM and another one is so called professional CAM - this one is able decrypt full transport stream. It is intended just for content providers and can be obtained directly fro

[linux-dvb] Re: More than 4 DVB cards - again

2004-06-24 Thread Irek Defee
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Maersk-Moller Sent: 24. kesäkuuta 2004 16:01 To: Irek Defee Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: More than 4 DVB cards - again >You mean in practice you can expect to transmit a maximum

[linux-dvb] Re: More than 4 DVB cards - again

2004-06-24 Thread Irek Defee
>> I'm wondering whether this is worth all the trouble. >> Just network two PCs together an you can run 8 cards without problems. >Well, assume you want to access 60 transponders and pay a premium >for your hosting rackspace as well as for power. That's 15 PCs >instead of 10 ;-) Well, that brings

[linux-dvb] Re: More than 4 DVB cards - again

2004-06-24 Thread Irek Defee
>> Another issue though is how >> much stream juice one can squeeze out of the cards at the same time... >I don't see why you can't squeeze 6*45Mbps = 270bps over the PCI bus >and the same amount when you send it to a network card. AFAIK, you >can transmit 1056Mbps at most over the standard PCI

[linux-dvb] Re: More than 4 DVB cards - again

2004-06-24 Thread Irek Defee
MAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carsten Koch Sent: 22. kesäkuuta 2004 13:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: More than 4 DVB cards - again Irek Defee wrote: > I can only confirm that in version 2.4 there is no problem whatsoever, > I am running machines wi

[linux-dvb] Re: More than 4 DVB cards - again

2004-06-22 Thread Irek Defee
I can only confirm that in version 2.4 there is no problem whatsoever, I am running machines with 6 cards installed since I have that many PCI slots available and all is fine and stable. Another issue though is how much stream juice one can squeeze out of the cards at the same time... Irek -

[linux-dvb] No way

2004-05-13 Thread Irek Defee
There is absolutely no way for CAM or anything else to get the NDS system on anything else than their proprietary boxes. NDS is used in UK by Sky (same Murdoch guys) and nobody ever has been able to something about this. Irek -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

[linux-dvb] Skystar2 2C multihead

2004-03-30 Thread Irek Defee
Due to unavailability of budget Technotrend I am thinking about switching to Skystar2 budget cards. But I never used them and do not know if they work as well in multiple configurations budget Technotrend. Does anybody have experience with DVB-S SkyStar2 Rev. 2.6C running in machines with mu

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-s 1.3 problem

2004-03-17 Thread Irek Defee
> I have a Galaxis DVB-S 1.3 card with alps_bsrv (ves 1x93) frontend, but as > you can see It isn't correctly identified, and It also doesn't tune any > channel. Any ideas on what could be wrong? > In the same box I have 2 Technotrend DVB-T and B2C2 working flawlessly. There might be nothing wrong

[linux-dvb] Re: hdtv & dvb

2004-03-12 Thread Irek Defee
>Hmm, ok, I can see how stations who have huge archives of PAL material >might want to use 50 fields/sec HDTV for easier conversion. But EURO1080 >isn't such a station, so I don't see why they chose this. In fact, most >HDTV material available today will likely be 59,94 fields/sec, so IMHO >EURO10

[linux-dvb] Re: hdtv & dvb

2004-03-12 Thread Irek Defee
> Have your found antoher one??? >No. Since there is only one channel, I would conclude that any attempts >to use HDTV/DVB on Linux are premature, unless one is a developer. Not entirely so, one should be preparing equipment since more channels should be coming later this year. Astra HD Promo is

[linux-dvb] Re: Tuning problems

2004-02-12 Thread Irek Defee
Andrew de Quincey wrote: > Hi, I've noticed this too, but with the STV0299. I can lock to all signals >around a symbol rate of 2750 , but not to any which have a much lower >one. I've got a feeling I'm going to have to look at the TT driver to get >the exact settings as well for that.

[linux-dvb] Re: Tuning problems

2004-02-11 Thread Irek Defee
There is definitely a problem with signal quality. I think it is maybe even not the most pronounced in cable or terrestrial but in satellite because bitrates can be much lower. On low bit rate transponders with Windows software budget cards work absolutely perfectly. With linux software there is

[linux-dvb] tt dvb-s 1.5 - I confirm this too

2004-02-06 Thread Irek Defee
>i've bought a original tt card, a week ago. >but it don't want to run: >saa7146: register extension 'dvb'. >saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem d08b3600 (revision 1, irq 11) (0x13c2,0x). >DVB: registering new adapter (Siemens/Technotrend/Hauppauge PCI rev1.3). >Siemens/Technotrend/Hauppauge PCI r