Devin,
I have an HVR-950q.
Analog support is working much better for me. I love the faster
tuning. Still no luck getting analog to work in MythTV.
I am seeing some major regressions on the the digital side. mplayer
can't tune any digital channels and seems to be failing because it
can't access the tuner. In MythTV it does tune my QAM64 channel that
previously would only tune with Frank's QAM64 patch. The other QAM256
channels either won't lock at all or if they do have bad pixelation
and audio drops. In mythtv-setup I can't do a channel scan because it
says it can't open the card which seems similar to the problem mplayer
had. I had previously been using 11658 with the QAM64 patch.
The 950q is definitely cooler to the touch. Not a big deal but I did
notice that the tune light that would light orange when tuned to a
channel no longer lights up.
Let me know if there is anything you would like me to try.
Thanks,
Britney
On May 5, 2009, at 11:14 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
Hello all,
I'm happy to announce that there have been some considerable
improvements to the xc5000 driver, and I am looking for people with
xc5000 based devices to test:
== Noteworthy changes ==
* Power management is now properly supported - no more sucking up your
laptop battery and burning your fingers on the tuner's f-connector
when the device is idle (can be disabled with the "no_poweroff"
modprobe option).
* Faster tuning - average 10x improvement in time to lock. Average
lock time now around 350ms, down from 3200ms. No more multi-second
delays when trying to channel surf in tvtime.
* Redistributable firmware - Xceive has graciously allowed us to
redistribute the firmware and bundle it in the distros. No more need
for users to manually extract the blob from the Hauppauge Windows
driver.
* Various fixes to bridges and dvb core found during power
management testing.
* Support for DVB-T tuning, thanks to David T.L. Wong <davidtlw...@gmail.com
>
To test the code, clone from the following hg repository:
http://linuxtv.org/hg/~dheitmueller/xc5000-improvements-beta/
Unfortunately, current users are going to have to upgrade to the new
firmware. However, this is a one time cost and I will work with the
distros to get it bundled so that users won't have to do this in the
future:
http://www.devinheitmueller.com/xc5000/dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw
http://www.devinheitmueller.com/xc5000/README.xc5000
Thanks go out to Xceive for providing access to the xc5000
specification, reference driver code, and firmware under the
appropriate license. Thanks also go out to Michael Krufky for his
considerable effort in helping test/debug different xc5000 hardware.
I look forward to hearing back from testers with any problems they may
encounter. Now is the time to bring these up before it gets merged
into the mainline.
Thanks,
Devin
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