Hi,
I am looking for a help with Twinhan Vision Plus 1022a DVB card. Upto this moment I didn't had any luck with this board.
So far I tried to configure it in Windows 2000, Windows Media Center and Linux.
In windows envirovment Twinhan recommends to ignore installaton of drivers when windows find a new hardware (this is what I did) and use their installer which will install the drivers (this is what I did). On next restart the installer should continue and find the card but it never worked for me :( and software refused to install. I found that windows can see hardware (Hardware Manager) but can not install software as from software point of view the card is not present in the computer. (It is brand new card)
I was looking on internet for information how this card can be configured in Linux. So far I found that the card will hang the system with standard 878 driver (and it does with knoppix 3.3 -- knoppix 3.7 can not boot on my computer by some unknown reason). As I understood to make this card work it will require to patch kernel driver for 878 chip driver.
At the same time Fedora Core 2 can boot with this card but I do not know what I should do after that. Does FC2 has driver for this card? Is it possible to make it work?
Now about system and what already work:
1. AMD 1.2GHz CPU 2. 512MB RAM 3. FC 2 OS 4. Nexus-S 5. Driver for Nexus-S 6. Scanned transporders on Telstar5 7. Tuned to FTA channel and got video/sound 8. vdr is running and able switch channels 9. location: North America -- Canada
Now a few remarks about problems I found:
1. vdr refused to compile complaining about DVB_API_VERSION 3 although I run "makelinks". To solve the problem I had to modify dvbdevice.h (do not remember at this moment correct name) and put full path in include #includ </usr/local/linux/include/linux/dvb/version.h> 2. If I tune on crypted channel or radio channel I am getting "rolling screen" -- I see that name of the channel and time string roll over screen. -- Is there a fix for this problem.
Thanks in advance for any help, and I would not mind if somebody will push me in right direction to make this card work.
Andy
Am Dienstag, 22. März 2005 19:42 schrieb Andrey Vlassov:
Hi,
I am looking for a help with Twinhan Vision Plus 1022a DVB card. Upto this moment I didn't had any luck with this board.
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I was looking on internet for information how this card can be configured in Linux. So far I found that the card will hang the system with standard 878 driver (and it does with knoppix 3.3 -- knoppix 3.7 can not boot on my computer by some unknown reason). As I understood to make this card work it will require to patch kernel driver for 878 chip driver.
I'm using a Twinhan VisionPlus 1020 card. Unfortunately, this card seems to use the same device numbers than some analog cards do, and the driver Knoppix loads will hang the system.
I figured out that I have to load the bttv module with these options: i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
I have no idea on how to do this with Knoppix, but on Gentoo I created a file "/etc/modules.d/bttv" and put the following in it: options bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71 Then run modules-update.
On Fedora, you might want to try to modprobe bttv like this: modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
Hope this helps, Robert
Hi Robert,
could you give me some guide lines what you did to make this card work with vdr? We can communicate directly over email if you would prefer.
Andy
I'm using a Twinhan VisionPlus 1020 card. Unfortunately, this card seems to use the same device numbers than some analog cards do, and the driver Knoppix loads will hang the system.
I figured out that I have to load the bttv module with these options: i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
I have no idea on how to do this with Knoppix, but on Gentoo I created a file "/etc/modules.d/bttv" and put the following in it: options bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71 Then run modules-update.
On Fedora, you might want to try to modprobe bttv like this: modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
Hope this helps, Robert
Am Dienstag, 22. März 2005 20:52 schrieb Andrey Vlassov:
I figured out that I have to load the bttv module with these options: i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
On Fedora, you might want to try to modprobe bttv like this: modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
could you give me some guide lines what you did to make this card work with vdr? We can communicate directly over email if you would prefer.
Since the VP1020 is the only DVB card in the system, I use vdr-xine as an output device. This works quite well, as far as I can tell (I don't use this system on an everyday basis).
Since you have mentioned a Nexus, I don't think you need that. You want to use both the TwinHan and the Nexus at the same time, don't you?
In this case, you would only need to load the DVB driver (bttv) in a way that doesn't crash the system. VDR will automatically use all available DVB devices.
Robert
Robert,
yes, you did undertand me right I am interested to have both cards in my system (although I have only one dish -- balcony space restriction).
This card was purchased mainly because Twinhan stated that it can drive USALS STAB HH motor. I was playing with Nexus-s for a while and didn't find how to drive motor in sence of USALS (in windows I could drive motor East/West Steps/Run Diseqc 1.2).
Advantage USALS is that I can enter my coordinates and then say "Hey turn dish to 100W" and wait few seconds when dish will be pointed to satellite I am interested in.
I am quite new to vdr and do not know many things yet but I am learn fast. So, as I understood to be able watch a program on Budget card on the computer screen I will need a plugin like vdr-xine. Is my understanding correct?
NOTE: plugin looks nice but I would modify it looks a little different if it possible. I might happen that I will talk to developer and provide my help to him.
Thanks,
Andy
Am Dienstag, 22. März 2005 20:52 schrieb Andrey Vlassov:
I figured out that I have to load the bttv module with these options: i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
On Fedora, you might want to try to modprobe bttv like this: modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
could you give me some guide lines what you did to make this card work with vdr? We can communicate directly over email if you would prefer.
Since the VP1020 is the only DVB card in the system, I use vdr-xine as an output device. This works quite well, as far as I can tell (I don't use this system on an everyday basis).
Since you have mentioned a Nexus, I don't think you need that. You want to use both the TwinHan and the Nexus at the same time, don't you?
In this case, you would only need to load the DVB driver (bttv) in a way that doesn't crash the system. VDR will automatically use all available DVB devices.
Robert
Am Dienstag, 22. März 2005 22:42 schrieb Andrey Vlassov:
yes, you did undertand me right I am interested to have both cards in my system (although I have only one dish -- balcony space restriction).
This card was purchased mainly because Twinhan stated that it can drive USALS STAB HH motor. I was playing with Nexus-s for a while and didn't find how to drive motor in sence of USALS (in windows I could drive motor East/West Steps/Run Diseqc 1.2).
Advantage USALS is that I can enter my coordinates and then say "Hey turn dish to 100W" and wait few seconds when dish will be pointed to satellite I am interested in.
Sorry, I can't help you with that.
I am quite new to vdr and do not know many things yet but I am learn fast. So, as I understood to be able watch a program on Budget card on the computer screen I will need a plugin like vdr-xine. Is my understanding correct?
No. VDR needs an output device. The Nexus' MPEG-2 decoder can be used as a output device which is connected to a TV set or alike. On the other hand, the VP1020 is a budget card that has no MPEG-2 decoder on board. So you need vdr-xine (for decoding MPEG-2 in software and displaying to a monitor) only when there's no active card in the system.
In your case, there is. Channels received by the budget card will be decoded and displayed by the Nexus. Applications like kvdr and xawtv can be used to have the Nexus' video output on screen, too.
So essentially, it doesn't matter what DVB card provides a channel (you could even stream them via network from another VDR box), the video will always go to the Nexus.
Robert
Le 03/22/2005 11:46 PM, Robert Huitl a joliment écrit :
So essentially, it doesn't matter what DVB card provides a channel (you could even stream them via network from another VDR box), the video will always go to the Nexus.
In this case, can the nexus descamble two scrambed channels, on coming from yhe budget card, the other from the nexus itself: for example when looking at a picture and recording another at the same time (both are scambled and nexus card has the right cam-ci stuff to descramble) ?
Nicolas.
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