Azurewave AD SP400 CI (VP-1041)
A hybrid DVB-S2 PCI card from Azurewave, also known as Twinhan.
It is currently not supported under Linux. However, experimental support for some of the device's features is available (see below for details).
Overview/Features
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DVB-S and DVB-S2. Common interface unit with PCI faceplate included.
Components Used
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Identification
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Making it Work
Firmware
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Drivers
There are currently no in kernel drivers for this card.
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However, experimental support does exist.
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A current solution is based on the currently unmerged multiproto and mantis trees from http://jusst.de/hg/
Kernel 2.6.20 works ok.
Obtain multiproto: hg clone http://jusst.de/hg/multiproto
Use following patch to patch multiproto http://pansy.at/gernot/twinhan-vp1041-3.diff.gz
Compile the patched multiproto and install.
Obtain scan from http://jusst.de/manu/scan.tar.bz2 and slot in the util/scan directory of hg http://linuxtv.org/hg/dvb-apps/. Fix up the .h includes to come from the earlier multiproto compilation.
Obtain szap.c from http://abraham.manu.googlepages.com/szap.c and compile it in util/szap according to http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-October/021474.html
Sample kernel output
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Player support
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Use scan to create a channels.conf. Then to tune to a channel do:
szap -r -p -i -a 0 -l UNIVERSAL -t 0 -c channels.conf "channelname"
and then
mplayer - < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
(assuming the card is your adapter number 0)
Without the interactive -i option szap tunes and locks but is unkillable (with ctrl-c or kill) to change to another channel. Interactively type channel names in the terminal to tune to each one.
Without the -p option DVB-S2 streams are not playable.
Remote Control Support
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