Compro VideoMate S350

Compro VideoMate S350 Card

DVB-S and hardware analogue card. Supports encoding analogue to Mpeg-4 in addition to Mpeg-2.

Overview/Features

• DVB-S input, DVB-S output, svideo input, composite input, IR input, audio input, audio output

Components Used

• Zarlink ZL10039 (DVB-S Tuner)
• Zarlink ZL10313 (DVB-S Demodulator)
• Philips SAA7130HL (PCI Bridge)

Identification

The output of lspci -vvnn reveals:

05:02.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7130] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Compro Technology, Inc. Device [185b:c900]
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 64 (21000ns min, 8000ns max)
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
	Region 0: Memory at febffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-

The output of dmesg reveals:

[   55.794934] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
[   55.794973] saa7134 0000:05:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[   55.794977] saa7130[0]: found at 0000:05:02.0, rev: 1, irq: 18, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfebffc00
[   55.794981] saa7130[0]: subsystem: 185b:c900, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
[   55.795024] saa7130[0]: board init: gpio is 84bf00
[   55.944529] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 5b 18 00 c9 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
[   55.944540] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 86 0f ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   55.944549] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 02 01 03 01 08 ff 00 87 ff ff ff ff
[   55.944558] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   55.944568] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff d6 00 c0 86 1c 02 01 02 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   55.944577] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff cb
[   55.944586] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 60: 30 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   55.944595] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   55.944604] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   55.944614] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   55.944623] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   55.944632] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   55.944641] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   55.944651] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   55.944660] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   55.944671] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   55.944735] saa7130[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
[   55.944765] saa7130[0]: registered device vbi0

The output of i2cdetect -l reveals:

i2c-0	smbus     	saa7130[0]                      	SMBus adapter

Drivers

Currently unsupported in linux.

Linux works with video device (analog input).
DVB-S was checked with binary at FC6 from compro but nothing...

Edit: This card might not be supported yet, but I can confirm that it works in linux with a patched kernel - please see my comments on the discussion page.

External Links

• Compro VideoMate S350 product page