On 27-11-12 10:51, Ralph Metzler wrote:
Oliver Schinagl writes:
On 27-11-12 10:33, Ralph Metzler wrote:
Oliver Schinagl writes:
I'm interested for such information. (I'm looking also for good well supported DVB-S2 device to target multiple satellite)
I've a question for you Olivier. I don't know that brand. Why going to 1 dualtuner board and the octopus. In the same brand you can also use the Cine S2 that could eventually be expended with a dualtuner board for example. What are the limitation?
From what I know, is that the hardware is nearly identical on both setups.
The Cine S2 is an octopus with only 2 connectors (which allows 4 extra tuners) and has 2 onboard tuners, so 6 tuners maximum.
The Octopus is ONLY the bridge chip (in FPGA form strangly in the latest revisions, was the nGene before, driver is the same so maybe they got some IP from micronas to put in the FPGA due to performance/scaling issues?) but has 4 connectors for expansion cards. So you can connect 8
Micronas has nothing to do with the new bridge. nGene is no longer in production and it also lacked inputs and outputs to support more tuners/CIs.\
Well the new FPGA based design uses the nGene driver, so it at the very
No it does not. It uses the ddbridge driver.
least is compatible on an API front. It would sound somewhat reasonable that either they re-implemented part of the chip or got some secret IP from micronas ;)
No, it has nothing to do with Micronas.
In any case, there is an FPGA on the board that behaves 'like' the nGene :)
No, it does not.
I do not know how you get this idea!?!?!
I have this strange idea, that I saw the ddbridge reference in the nGene driver. Now that you make me look again, I can't find said reference :)
So I stand very much corrected! The conclusion still holds, the ddbridge + duoflex dvb-s2 should be very well supported!
ddbridge is a completely different driver.
Regards, Ralph
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