Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:27:24 +0200 From: Mika Lehtinen tengam@gmail.com Subject: [vdr] Technotrend Premium DVB-C 2300 OT success stories To: Klaus Schmidinger's VDR vdr@linuxtv.org Message-ID: b69428070511220627l57ef838kdf9771f710593772@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hi,
Can anyone recomend buying a Technotrend Premium DVB-C 2300 OT card for use with VDR? Can you get it working? I can't seem to be able to figure out the current driver status from anywhere. It seems, that there are or at least have been tuning and audio issues.
It would be great to hear, if someone has had success (tuning, digital & analogue audio, etc.) with the above card and even better to get pointers to working Linux kernel versions / patches.
Thanks, Mika
Hi Mika,
you should also ask the guys in the linuxtv mailing list (linux-dvb@linuxtv.org) !
this is what I know from www.vdrportal.de:
-the card (also known as Nexus-CA) works :-)
-sound via the analog output is only possible with patched drivers. There exists an older "quick-and-dirty"-patch, but this patch doesn`t work with the current dvb-kernel CVS. I compiled a kernel 2.6.14 with this patched driver for LinVDR, and the tester said it works ! You can find the patch at http://www.sroegner.de/vdr/patches.php
-sound via the digital output works since one or two weeks with the current dvb-kernel drivers.
To get both working (analog + digital sound with the same driver) there are two possibilities:
-find somebody who is able to modify the "dirty" analog-patch so that it works with the current dvb-kernel -wait until a "clean" solution for analog audio is found, so that it can be integrated officially in the dvb-kernel CVS
Hope this helps you!
Hi,
Thanks for the help. The card sounds usable enough. Actually I was asking this to help a friend who is setting up a system. I myself am lucky enough to have a vdr setup with a TT DVB-C 2.1 and a budget card.
This should get us going.
-Mika
On 11/22/05, Martin Dauskardt md001@gmx.de wrote:
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:27:24 +0200 From: Mika Lehtinen tengam@gmail.com Subject: [vdr] Technotrend Premium DVB-C 2300 OT success stories To: Klaus Schmidinger's VDR vdr@linuxtv.org Message-ID: b69428070511220627l57ef838kdf9771f710593772@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hi,
Can anyone recomend buying a Technotrend Premium DVB-C 2300 OT card for use with VDR? Can you get it working? I can't seem to be able to figure out the current driver status from anywhere. It seems, that there are or at least have been tuning and audio issues.
It would be great to hear, if someone has had success (tuning, digital & analogue audio, etc.) with the above card and even better to get pointers to working Linux kernel versions / patches.
Thanks, Mika
Hi Mika,
you should also ask the guys in the linuxtv mailing list (linux-dvb@linuxtv.org) !
this is what I know from www.vdrportal.de:
-the card (also known as Nexus-CA) works :-)
-sound via the analog output is only possible with patched drivers. There exists an older "quick-and-dirty"-patch, but this patch doesn`t work with the current dvb-kernel CVS. I compiled a kernel 2.6.14 with this patched driver for LinVDR, and the tester said it works ! You can find the patch at http://www.sroegner.de/vdr/patches.php
-sound via the digital output works since one or two weeks with the current dvb-kernel drivers.
To get both working (analog + digital sound with the same driver) there are two possibilities:
-find somebody who is able to modify the "dirty" analog-patch so that it works with the current dvb-kernel -wait until a "clean" solution for analog audio is found, so that it can be integrated officially in the dvb-kernel CVS
Hope this helps you!
vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Just my 2 cents... I considered the DVB-C 2300, but I found out that the only video output is composite.
There is no J2 block on these cards - if you want S-Video or RGB, you'll have to be mighty accurate with the soldering iron!
This I believe is the real reason the 2300 is much cheaper on dvbshop.net than other cards, simply because most people wanting a hardware decoder card are interested in image quality, and composite-only is useless for this.
Cheers, Gavin.
The lack of J2 is is not good, but are there any alternative DVB-C premium cards available, now that the DVB-C 2.1 is finally out of stock?
At least the shopping cart at http://www.dvbshop.net reports
*** NO STOCK - KEIN LAGERBESTAND ***
for Technotrend DVB-C 2.1 C2100 Prem. Ed.
-Mika
On 11/22/05, Gavin Hamill gdh@acentral.co.uk wrote:
Just my 2 cents... I considered the DVB-C 2300, but I found out that the only video output is composite.
There is no J2 block on these cards - if you want S-Video or RGB, you'll have to be mighty accurate with the soldering iron!
This I believe is the real reason the 2300 is much cheaper on dvbshop.net than other cards, simply because most people wanting a hardware decoder card are interested in image quality, and composite-only is useless for this.
Cheers, Gavin.
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