DVB-S PCI Cards

This is an overview of LinuxTv supported DVB-S PCI cards. If you need more technical information on a device, have a look at it's specific wiki article.

DVB-S Full-Featured Cards

All these so called full-featured cards have the AV711x MPEG2 Decoder onboard. Please be sure to know their limitations before you are going to spend too much money for these cards. You need at least one of them in your VDR System unless you install the VDR Software Decoder Plugin. All other DVB programs don't have this limitation.

The more modern approach are the decoder-less cards listed below, every modern computer is able to decoder MPEG2 in software.

Vendor Model number Price	Linux-Support Peripheral connectors	Comments	Pictures Links Developer Infos
Rev. 1.3 sold as: Fujitsu-Siemens DVB-S Rev 1.3	supports: DVB, VDR Connectors: Sat in Sat out Composite Audio 3,5mm Jumper2	Compared to other Revisions: Sound not that brilliant (has 81dB dynamic at 16Bit) 4-5% of the Tuners need a lot of power and get really hot a design-fault in the 5V power supply of the Tuners causes unstable SNR und STR, but there's a mod for that. symbolrates > 8 MBaud can be used	Dev Info Details File:Hauppauge Wintv dvb-s rev1.3.jpg
Rev. 1.3 sold as: Galaxis PCTV-SAT DVB-S Rev 1.3	supports: DVB, VDR Connectors: Sat in Sat out Composite Audio 3,5mm Common Interface Jumper2	Compared to other Revisions: 4-5% of the Tuners need a lot of power and get really hot symbolrates > 8 MBaud can be used	Details
Rev.1.5 sold as: TechniSat SkyStar 1 Rev 1.5, tt2000.8	supports: DVB, VDR Connectors: Sat in Composite Audio 3,5mm Jumper2	Compared to other Revisions: Sounds better (has 101dB dynamic at 24bit) uses LNBP16 (not LNBP13) => 650mA (was: 500mA) for LNB symbolrates: 1-45 Mbaud	Dev Info Details
Rev.1.6 sold as: Hauppauge DVB-S_ff_rev1.6 Fujitsu-Siemens DVB-S_ff_rev1.6	supports: DVB, VDR Connections: Sat in Composite Audio 3,5mm Jumper2	Compared to other Revisions: Sounds better (has 101dB dynamic at 24bit) doesn't produce that much heat => QPSK Demodulator IC doesn't need a metal-heatpipe uses LNBP16 (not LNBP13) => 650mA (was: 500mA) for LNB 2 Watt safety - less crashes because of heat symbolrate 8-45 Mbaud	Dev Info Details
Rev.2.1 sold as: Hauppauge WinTV Nexus-s Rev 2.1	supports: DVB, VDR Connections: Sat in Sat out (only BSRU6-701a Tuner) Connector for Audio/Video cable Connection for IR-Receiver	Compared to other Revisions: Sound not that brilliant (has 81dB dynamic at 16Bit) IR -Remote included (Nexus) Connectorcable included (digitaler audio output, Video...) symbolrate 1-45 Mbaud	Dev Info Details Product link (recent Nexus)
Rev.2.2 sold as: Hauppauge WinTV Nexus-s Rev.2.2	supports: DVB, VDR Connections: Sat in Sat out (only BSRU6-701a Tuner) Connector for Audio/Video cable Connection for IR-Receiver	Compared to other Revisions: like Rev. 2.1 but other Vendor-ID and other Soundchip Sounds better (has 101dB dynamic at 24bit) IR -Remote included (Nexus) Connectorcable included (digitaler audio output, Video...) symbolrate 1-45 Mbaud	Dev Info Details Product link (recent Nexus)

DVB-S Budget Cards

The way to go if you own a recent computer and are not willing to spend too much money for state-of-the art technology.

Manufacturer / Model number / Price	Supports	Tuner / Chips	Connections	Others	Pictures
Digital Rise DTV PCI Sat CI	DVB		Sat in Common Interface	Twinhan Card List	constructor page
Hauppauge WinTV Nova-SE2 Modell 639	DVB		Sat in
Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-s PCI Modell 541 [1]	DVB, VDR		Sat in		[2]
Hauppauge Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-s Plus PCI Modell 794	DVB, VDR	CX24123, ISL6421	Sat in S-Video in Video-Chinch (FBAS)-In iR-Remote Audio-LineIn
Hauppauge NOVA-CI Modell 588 [3]	DVB, VDR		Sat in Common Interface		[4]
Fujitsu-Siemens Activy DVB-S Budget	DVB, VDR		Sat in
Technotrend PCline budget DVB-S[5]	DVB, VDR		Sat in Common Interface
Technotrend TT-budget S-1500[6]	DVB, VDR	BSBE1-502A, SAA7146A, LNBP21	Sat in IR connector Common Interface
TechniSat SkyStar 2 TV PCI / Sky2PC	DVB, VDR		Sat in
TELES Strato SkyDSL PCI rev1.4	DVB	SAA7146, S5H1420 Technotrend design	Sat in
Twinhan Technology Co	DVB, VDR		Sat in, some Sat out	Twinhan Card List
Hercules VP-1030 and Clones Smart TV Satellite alias Pinnacle PCTV Sat CI TechniSat SkyStar 1 CI(v3.0 only)	DVB		Sat in Common Interface	Twinhan Card List
DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-S		CX2388X + STV0299B + LG QPSK NIM	Sat in x 2
Pinnacle PCTV Sat
KNC1 TV-Station DVB-S English	DVB	Philips SAA7146 chipset Philips SU1278 tuner (warning : SH and SHA flavours supported, SH-2 flavour not supported	Sat in Common_Interface
KNC1 TV-Star DVB-S English	DVB, since kernel 2.6.16	Philips SAA7146 chipset Philips SD1878 tuner	Sat in Sat Out
LifeView FlyDVB-S [7]	DVB supported in v4l-dvb	Philips SAA7134 Philips TDA8262 tuner Philips TDA10086 frontend Intersil ISL6421ER LNB supply	Sat in S-Video in Composite in Remote in	Support Linux kernel 2.6.10. analog only