Greetings all, What's a good way to get a 20 megabits/sec DVB/SPI bitstream (LVDS, like what comes out of the TD8VSB $360 ATSC/8VSB demodulator: http://www.rldrake.com/digital/td8vsb.html) into a PC running Linux?
Dektec offers a DVB/SPI PCI input card (http://www.dektec.com/DTA-122.htm), but it costs $1,100 and goes up to 108 megabits/sec, and Linux support is unclear. There are various DVB/ASI PCI input cards that do have Linux drivers for about that price, but SPI-to-ASI converters seem to be about another thousand dollars. Is there any better way of doing this? I've been thinking about getting some comparators to turn the LVDS into a TTL-level eight-channel stream, and trying to capture it with a PCI IEEE 1284 parallel port. But I'm not sure if this will be able to be fast enough, even with a PCI parallel port. Does anybody else have any better ways, preferably less than $600, for getting a DVB/SPI stream into a computer running Linux? Or, for the end-to-end solution, for getting an ATSC 8VSB bitstream off of the air into a computer running Linux? Thanks, Keith Winstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
