AVerMedia AVerTV Bravo Hybrid PCI-E

The front of an AVerMedia H788D, with interface chip and demodulator

The back of an AVerMedia H788D

The AVerMedia AVerTV Bravo Hybrid PCI-E is a series of ATSC PCIe cards from AVerMedia. There are two versions of the card: a hybrid card (H788) which can handle ATSC, NTSC, and QAM, and a budget card (H788D) that can only handle ATSC and QAM. Both are currently unsupported under Linux.

Overview/features

Components used

• PCIe interface chip: NXP SAA7160ET
• Demodulator: LGDT3304
• Tuner: NXP TDA18271HDC1

Identification

H788D

$ lspci -vvnn
03:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors Device [1131:7160] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc Device [1461:0755]
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 4 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at fd900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Capabilities: [40] MSI: Enable- Count=1/32 Maskable- 64bit+
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
        Capabilities: [50] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
                DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <256ns, L1 <1us
                        ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset-
                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
                        RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
                        MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
                DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr+ FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend-
                LnkCap: Port #1, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <4us, L1 <64us
                        ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
                LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 128 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
        Capabilities: [74] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
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Making it work

Drivers

• For SAA7160 development: hg clone
• For LGDT3304 development: (driver already in upstream kernel)