DVBWorld DVB-S2 2004C PCI Card

A DVB-S/S2 PCI card from DVBWorld.

Product page: http://www.worlddvb.com.cn/product/htm/DVB-S2pci2004C.htm

Drivers are now included in kernel branch 2.6.28. More info is available at the following site: http://liplianin.at.tut.by/ds110en.html

Alternative : experimental support is available here: S2API.

Overview/Features

Low profile DVB-S/S2 PCI card.

Components Used

DM1105 PCI slot IC.

for current sell model is 2004C (Serit2633 Tuner)

• CX24118A tuner
• CX24116 demod

for new solution : 2004D (Motage Tuner)

• Motage TS2020 tuner
• Motage DS3000 demod

Making it Work

Firmware

Firmware is available with the DVBWorld 2004C Linux driver at http://www.worlddvb.com.cn/down/fw.rar (But what's with the proprietary RAR archive format? Geez...)

wget http://www.worlddvb.com.cn/down/fw.rar
sudo apt-get install unrar-free
unrar x fw.rar
sudo cp /fw/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw

Drivers

Experimental support under Linux exists. Drivers for DVB-S and DVB-S2 (see also S2API) have now been merged into v4l-dvb and can be installed as described here[1].

hg clone http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin/
cd s2-liplianin
make menuconfig
make
make install

Remote Control Support

The remote is supported by the device.

External Links

http://www.worlddvb.com.cn/product/htm/DVB-S2pci2004C.htm Manufacturers Website.