Penguin Friendly DVB-S(2) card.

thegoonden

thegoonden

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Can anyone reccommend a DVB-S, preferably a DVB-S2, card that uses a nice compliant, Linux friendly chipset, that will take nothing but a quick modprobe to get working?

My current analogue card is TERRIBLE, ugly, faded and blurred. I really need something better, so I thought I could ditch the Sky box, and just use freesat....but picking a card is a nightmare, as none of them say they work in non-MScrapware OS's.


Anyone here using freesat in pinguland care to share their wisdom?
 
When I was searching last night, I swear I seen some pages saying their DVB-S cards aren't supported, but half the net is blocked in work, so maybe I missed something.
 
Indeed I did miss something, even searching on that very site?????
Weird, I couldn't get any results for DVB-s on there....I think our proxy in work does more than block pages.
Anyway, the very one I was lookin at (the wintv-nova) is listed as supported.

DOH!
CHeers.
 
The Lifeview USB freeview card worked last time I tried it :) (Ebay special!)
Basically, if it's got a Phillips chipset it should work, otherwise may be iffy.

I've also had a Lifeview PCI Freview card working, IIRC all they use Phillips chipsets, so the satellite variant should work too. (Don't quote me on that though!)

Cheers

-Leezer-
 
I really need to hear from someone who is actually using DVB-S2 in linux.

V4l and so on SAY they support such and such a card....then when you look further it looks like "supported" means that one black-belt geek wrote his own drivers for it.

Getting ****ed off, is this 2001 or something, what's going on with the support for these simle devices?

Please, can anyone tell me "I bouhght this, it works, I did not write a driver for it, just modprobed one".
 
Oh for crying out loud....all the "supported devices" on the v4l pages, when you click on them, then say they are unsupported?????????????????????????

Did Microsoft buy Linux when I was sleeping?
 
Tried, failed. Really wanted just ONE other person to say "hey I'm using this one, it's great".


As it happend, while going through some old cable tonight, I came upon an Svideo lead.....hmmmmmmm....plugged THAT between the skybox and the PC, much better picture. Maybe I can hold out for a while until DVB-S2 and freesat are a little more established.
 
thegoonden said:
Right, I bought a Hauppauge card (Win-TV-Nova-S2).
Useless.
Deeply unhappy.

wouldn't mind SO much but the windows software is totally unusable.
Click to expand...

Im stil; fighting ATI with getting my 4870 to work, then im going to try get my Haupagge 3000 TV card working. Got BBc hd and itv hd working with same card in windows using dvbviewer. Program cost me £12 but it works wonders!
 
This one HAS a conexant CX88, but it's something to do with the frontend for it.
I don't know exactly, my brother is doing it for me as he has experience with a WINTV DVB-T card, and he said that at some point he got a message saying "dunno what your card is mate, pick one of these", and mine is not listed (none of the "nearly" ones seemed to work.
Most of the links on linuxtv and the v4l wiki are dead for some reason.

At least I can't say it's Linux's fault, the manufacturer supplied software for windows is worse than a virus, and utterly without use.
 
you might just have to wait it out.

i have a hauppauge nova-T-500 and it must have been at least 6 months after i bought it before i got it working in linux. one day, the latest kernel included support and it's all been roses since.

the good thing is, hauppauge sell well, so it should just be a matter of time before linux likes it. as opposed to windows, the software for that side may well remain poor, it certainly has for my card.
 
I was shocked (as was the original owner of the card) at how appalling the windos software was, I'd have thought they'd have improved by now.
As you say, it's only a matter of time.

The issue appears to be that while almost all the Haupauge DVB-S cards work, S2 (ie, HD) is more than just an extension to DVB-S, so it's a case of starting over for creating drivers.
 
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