TerraTec Cinergy 1400 DVB-T

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I'd like to tell you the following experiences I have made with Cinergy 1400 DVB-T, which is a PCI card.

I got it working on Mandrake 10.1 with a 2.6.14 kernel configured. 2.6.12 and the standard 2.6.8 kernel did not work. I configured the kernel with make oldconfig and the options under Device Drivers -> Multimedia -> Video4Linux -> Connexant 2388 and DVB support for cx2388x based cards. After booting I made a "modprobe cx88-dvb", which is the only kernel module to be started. I did not manage to get it loaded from /etc/modules during boot.

With this module loaded, I had the device nodes created under /dev/dvb/adapter0. Kaffeine 0.7.1 then recognized the dvb card and presented me a configure dialog after starting, in which I was able to tell kaffeine to use a "de-Koeln-Bonn" setting (for DVB in Cologne).

In the menu "DVB" I chose "Channels" and made a "Start scan". Kaffeine finds the channels itself, so I did not need to find a channels.conf or something.

Afterwards I was able to switch channels by menu "DVB" and (great) - without doing anything else - by infrared, which comes with the card. In "Configuring Shortcuts" I was able to configure some other actions for the infrared, but kaffeine does not recognize all buttons.


Pro:

  • Very good and fluent picture, good sound, with kaffeine (on a 1GHz Athlon machine)
  • Very quick zapping with kaffeine
  • Timeshifting works without trouble
  • Recording (instantly and timed) works with kaffeine
  • OSD working

Contra:

  • I need kernel 2.6.14, which is awfully slow booting (boot time increased from 1 minute to 10)
  • Infrared only partly supported. I wonder if there are people out there understanding lirc...
  • No teletext
  • Antenna-Out not working
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