Re: [linux-dvb] Tuner sensitivity - details not on linux dvb wiki?

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas Pinz - DC2RPT
Hi Viktor, On Sunday 04 March 2007 08:53, Viktor Avramov wrote: Despite the thoroughness of the wiki I have not been able to find information on the tuning performance of the various devices supported by linux DVB. Doing a performance tests is sadly not an easy task. In general, the

Re: [linux-dvb] Tuner sensitivity - details not on linux dvb wiki?

2007-03-04 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi, Have a look to the twinhan dtv alpha stick. (OLDVERSION) There are some fw problems reported in this list to the new Version of this device. HTH Halim ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org

Re: [linux-dvb] Tuner sensitivity - details not on linux dvb wiki?

2007-03-04 Thread Nico Sabbi
Thomas Pinz - DC2RPT wrote: In my personal experience, the differences between the devices are most time very small and i could not recommend a device which is better than all others. Kind regards, Thomas Pinz theory apart (that I don't understand at all), in my experience some cards

Re: [linux-dvb] Tuner sensitivity - details not on linux dvb wiki?

2007-03-04 Thread Viktor Avramov
Thanks Thomas for your technical reality check Nico, thats the sort of information I was looking for as it happens, I am considering the AirStar2 because of the supposed good tuner performance... Does anyone else have other examples of direct comparisons they have observed? Just to put

Re: [linux-dvb] Tuner sensitivity - details not on linux dvb wiki?

2007-03-04 Thread Nico Sabbi
Nico Sabbi wrote: Thomas Pinz - DC2RPT wrote: In my personal experience, the differences between the devices are most time very small and i could not recommend a device which is better than all others. Kind regards, Thomas Pinz theory apart (that I don't understand at all), in my

Re: [linux-dvb] Tuner sensitivity - details not on linux dvb wiki?

2007-03-04 Thread Viktor Avramov
I thought the MT352 is a demodulator... isn't the tuner a separate entity?? For example my cards both use a MT352 demod and they also both have a Thomson 7579 tuner so it may be that your devices both had the MT352 but different tuners... here's what I discovered on the wiki

Re: [linux-dvb] Tuner sensitivity - details not on linux dvb wiki?

2007-03-04 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi, On So, Mär 04, 2007 at 01:32:34 +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote: Nico Sabbi wrote: that tuned next to nothing) had the same demodulator as the Airstar2 (the mt352); this fact alone says a lot about the quality of the single tuners Afaik the twinhan dtv alpha stick has the same frontend! Best

Re: [linux-dvb] [Fwd: Re: New Hauppauge Board] requires multiproto

2007-03-04 Thread Will Tatam
I was directed to http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/multiproto via an off-list message but this tree is 6 months out of date and does not compile for me under 2.6.19 Why was this branch not rolled back into the main trunk ? Will Will Tatam wrote: I sent the following email to the email address

[linux-dvb] Re: please help with artec t1 an2235

2007-03-04 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that michel moalem may or may not have written... [snip] now i have to figure out what software i can use to scan and record... and than hope it will work on feisty alpha... You want dvb-utils for 'scan'. You'll find transmitter files in /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan. As for

[linux-dvb] [PATCH] Improve support of CX88_BOARD_WINFAST_DTV2000H

2007-03-04 Thread Vincent Pelletier
Hi. This is a patch I made some months ago and completely forgot to submit at that time... I updated my hg working copy and got no update (?!), so i submit it now. It adds support (ie, detection for) more functions present in this card. Values were gathered using regspy. I have not been able

[linux-dvb] DVB instability with CX88_BOARD_WINFAST_DTV2000H card

2007-03-04 Thread Vincent Pelletier
Hi. I have a strange instability with this board. The receprion is perfect for 10~20 minutes, then some glitches (squares, arraneous colors... just like corrupted mpeg stream) appear, sound pops and within the 15 seconds the video stops. Then no way to get the tuner back to life, it fails to

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] dvb-core: Fix several locking related problems.

2007-03-04 Thread Andreas Oberritter
Hi Simon, Simon Arlott wrote: Is any part of the patch going to be applied? I mentioned this problem in September last year and it looks like it's existed for years (the semaphore locking did the same thing). please send an updated patch together with a short description and your

[linux-dvb] Problems with KNC1 DVB-C

2007-03-04 Thread Rudy Zijlstra
hi all, On kernel 2.6.19.1 the KNC1 is working correctly. On 2.6.20.1 and 2.6.21-rc2 i get problems though, and the device is not fully loaded. I've attached the dmesg output. Anybody an idea how to progress? I have the feeling the i2c communicaton is not working correctly. How to solve

Re: [linux-dvb] Tuner sensitivity - details not on linux dvb wiki?

2007-03-04 Thread Tim Small
As another respondent has said, there are different types of signal degradation. That having been said - I suppose one answer could be a little web app which lets people comparatively rank two different models, and aggregates the results into an overall rank. Optionally, it could collect

[linux-dvb] Re: Nova-T 500 (dvb_usb_dib0700) usb disconnects

2007-03-04 Thread Antti P Miettinen
Chris Johns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: localhost kernel: urb completition error -32. localhost kernel: urb completition error -71. localhost last message repeated 347 times localhost kernel: usb 8-1: USB disconnect, address 2 Hmm.. any comment to

Re: [linux-dvb] Tuner sensitivity - details not on linux dvb wiki?

2007-03-04 Thread Morgan Tørvolt
I thought the MT352 is a demodulator... isn't the tuner a separate entity?? For example my cards both use a MT352 demod and they also both have a Thomson 7579 tuner so it may be that your devices both had the MT352 but different tuners... here's what I discovered on the wiki

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] dvb-core: Fix several locking related problems.

2007-03-04 Thread Oliver Endriss
Simon Arlott wrote: Is any part of the patch going to be applied? I mentioned this problem in September last year and it looks like it's existed for years (the semaphore locking did the same thing). Well, I hoped that someone more familiar with the demuxer stuff would comment on the patch. I

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-s card wont be detected

2007-03-04 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Oliver, * Oliver Endriss [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03-03-07 07:32]: If it still doesn't work, the subsystem id of your card might have been overwritten in the eeprom. This can be fixed using http://escape-edv.de/endriss/dvb/fix_eeprom.c thx a lot, now the card is working fine again. The color