On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:06 PM, HoP <jpetr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Manu, > > 2010/1/14 Manu Abraham <abraham.m...@gmail.com>: >> Well, the SAA716x is only the PCI Express interface. There is no video >> capture involved in there with the STi7109. It is a full fledged DVB >> STB SOC. >> >> OSD is handled by the STi7109 on that STB. >> http://www.st.com/stonline/products/literature/bd/11660/sti7109.pdf >> >> Though it is not complete, that driver, it still does handle it, >> through the firmware interface. These are the kind of devices that you >> find on a DVB STB, i must say. >> >> On a DVB STB, what happens is that you load a vendor specific firmware >> on the SOC. The SOC is just issued the firmware commands, that's how a >> STB works in principle. A DVB STB can be considered to have 2 outputs, >> ie if you use it as a PC card, you can output the whole thing to your >> PC monitor, or output it to a TV set. But in the case of the STB, you >> have a TV output alone. >> > > I never know about use of stb7109 in any PCI card. It is surprise > to me. Interesting what firmware is loaded to stb7109. Is it STM's > proprietary os21 or even linux?
I don't know what is loaded exactly, right now. It is something proprietary from Technotrend. I guess it could be OS21 at the moment, couldn't be WinCE. Although this could change any time, as we can load Linux also on it some time in the future ;-) The card is a Technotrend TT S2-6400 Premium Full Fledged card, with a STi7109, STV0900 Dual DVB-S2 demodulator, HDMI outputs, SPDIF etc. The STi7109 SOC being so large and with so many features, it's a shame to call it a card, maybe it should be called a STB or a PC. A neat and well built device though, even though the hardware is very much in it's initial stages. Regards, Manu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
