Twinhan VP-1030A

Introduction

DVB-S Budget PCI card by Twinhan Technologies

The only frontend driver for this card is the dst module. The tuner component initialization routines are held in the ASIC in the form of firmware (not reloadable through software). The oldest card in the DVB-S family from Twinhan !

This card uses the bttv driver. Well suppported by LinuxTV drivers.

The Common Interface is not yet supported by the LinuxTV drivers, but only by the closed source drivers under RedHat 9.0 (kernel 2.4.20).

The card is believed to support almost all major CAM's. No separate initialization required for different CAM's, since all the initialization is done in the ASIC's firmware.

Required modules and parameters

dvb_core dvb_shutdown_timeout=0

bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71

bt878

dst

dvb_bt8xx

Photo gallery

The card in it's full glory.

The backside view of the card.

The CAM removed from the card.

The Irdeto CAM that i used with the closed source driver.

CAM tests

Feel free to update this table with other types of CAMs.

CAM tests on Twinhan VP-1030A

Type	HW version	Viaccess version	Application version	Results
SCM Red Viaccess	1.0	?	?	Working, but random failures are observed every few hours with TPS
Aston Mediaguard P/N 901274	1.2	?	?	Working, not enough tests done
Aston Viaccess Pro	?	?	?	Not working
Aston Mediaguard Pro	?	?	?	Not working

As the dst_ca driver is still under development, the results of this page may change.