> 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.
I have a Dektec DTA-122 and it's the dog testicles as far as quality build goes. My stream is 33mbit/s and it handles it no problem (even has an 8MB buffer in case your computer throws a slight fit). They only have a Windows API (which is amazing too, I wrote my own grabber within 10 mins, having never wrote a win32 console program before). Linux drivers are supposed to be out before the New Year as well, and if the Windows API is anything to go by there should be a lot of functionality. I opted for this route even though it was more expensive, mainly because it was hard enough making the TTL->LVDS convertor - so I didn't want to go hacking some other board. Andy. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
