[linux-dvb] Re: Drivers for EasyWatch MobileSet PCMCIA DVB-T receiver

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Monday 11 Oct 2004 18:40, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> Hi Bertrand,
>
> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 17:53, Bertrand Mazieres wrote:
> > You will find at http://instinct-wp8.no-ip.org/pluto/
> > the drivers for the first PCMCIA DVB-T receiver,
> > the Easywatch MobileSet retailed in Germany by Citycom and also
> > known as Pluto 2, a product of SCM Microsystems.
>
> Does the hardware allow to record a whole transport stream at once?
>
> > Developed by Dany Salman, as part of his final graduation internship for
> > TDF, the French broadcast operator (www.tdf.fr), we would like
> > this driver to be included in the future LinuxTV releases.
> >
> > Specifically designed for a kernel 2.6, the drivers have been succesfully
> > tested under 2.6.7 and should be easily adaptable to 2.4.
> >
> > Currently, the following features work:
> > - MPEG2 TV with software decoding using players such as mplayer or xine
> > - IP over DVB-T reception, using the dvbnet interface
> >
> > There is still a minor bug such that some block errors appear every few
> > seconds. We do not plan on fixing the bug at this stage and would be very
> > happy if someone volunteers to take a look at the problem.
> >
> > Dany Salman (salmandany@yahoo.fr) and I remain at your disposal
> > for any further details on these drivers.
>
> First, thanks for writing this driver. Some cleanup will be required
> before it can be included in future releases:
> - It would be very helpful to get a diff -Nru style patch instead of a
> tarball that we could apply against our dvb-kernel CVS tree (preferably
> the FE_REFACTORING branch created by Andrew de Quincey).

Hold off for a couple of hours on this - I'm about to check in a major update.