On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 9:39:11 PM UTC+2, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> > There is quite a bit of documentation on the MPEG-TS part.  And some 
> > people have been looking into writing a driver, but lack of commonly 
> > available hardware to develop on slows things down. 
>
> I suspect that lack of driver for that part is also a reason for the 
> lack of boards that provide access to the DVB functionality :-( 
>
>
yeah, but i suspect the problem is the other way around..

the lack of parts (DVB tuners) that can "feed" a TS to the A20 so no 
"proper" integration with a DVB linux subsystem has been done.

as far as i can see there are some choices:

* "ready to go" but expensive: NIMs from Sr-systems 
http://sr-systems.de/content.php?show=Produkte&lng=eng&style=std
they showcase the proper "busses" TS+I2C for being driven by a sunxi card 
(but they are professional gears: 100€ or so for such a card)..

* Extension card for the Octopus Digital Devices DVB "bridge": i really 
suppose this too is based on link with TS+I2C between base "DVB bridge card 
to PCI express" and extension (DVB tuners/ CI modules..) BUT some 
investigation still needed: 
http://www.digitaldevices.de/english/Octopus_PCIe_Bridge.html

* _slightly_ less expensive but with high "hacking" value :-) , the 
Hauppauge Triplestick, pretty powerful USB DVB dongle composed of two 
boards, one is the DVB tuner and the other is the USB driver, here a good 
naked review:
 http://blog.palosaari.fi/2014/04/naked-hardware-15-pctv-triplestick-292e.html 


if you desolder the _tiny_connector (1mm step IIRC), you can again have the 
TS+I2C (+VCC/GND) stuff. the SiLabs tuner/demod is pretty unknown as there 
are no PDF freely available, but powerful, and it's already supported by 
Linux, so you could use the dongle as it is, through USB, and save the 
"effort" to link it to the DVB Allwinner subsystem..

that was the best i could put together, but maybe other can share other 
solutions. of course i've no economic interest in any of these vendors. and 
sorry if we have hijacked the "analog tv" decoder main topic! 

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