Philips SAA7146
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A PCI interface chipset initially intended as Multimedia interface for analog Audio and Video. Has been raped to pack the sampled MPEG-2 Transport Stream data into the video lines. Works surprisingly well in most setups, only a few have problems with high data loss. Superceeded by the SAA7134 which has a digital stream interface.
Used e.g. by the old Siemens DVB cards, most TechnoTrend PCI cards, the KNC1 DVB cards and TerraTec DVB cards.
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Warning !!! | |
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In 2.6.27 and possibly other kernel versions, the Alsa snd-aw2 driver will blindly grab all saa7146 devices preventing them from working. Blacklist the snd-aw2 driver to prevent this happening. |