some time ago I bought a SL DVB-S card at Conrad (a German warehouse),
because this card was the cheapest one. unluckily I had to find out that
there where no Linux drivers.
using the actuell trivers (linuxtv-dvb-1.0.0-pre3.tar.gz)there is a
driver which kind of works, only that I can't watch TV under Linux.
after a make and make insmod the following devices are created under /dev (using devfs):
/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/net0
since I couldn't figure out how to get mplayer or vlc to work with the card I'm asking for help. using szap seams to work (not quiet sure how it should look like). I just get about hundred lines that look like the following:
[root@ Gandalf szap/]# ./szap -n 001 zapping to 'Das Erste': sat 0, frequency = 11837 MHz H, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x0065, apid = 0x0066 using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' status 1f | signal a78a | snr 9beb | ber 0000ff50 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK .....
status 1f | signal a9a1 | snr a548 | ber 00000400 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal a8c6 | snr a95c | ber 00000300 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal ab3e | snr a7b8 | ber 00000200 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK .....
(as I said don't know if this is normal.)
some additional technical info about the card: the main chip is a Philips SAA 7146 AH tuner chip : (no clue, have to look at it) there is no hardware decoder chip, the whole thing requires software for playing. the card may be a cheap clone of a technotrend card because the windows drivers are served be technotrend: http://www.technotrend.de/sl/Lorenzen.htm
so pleas tell me what you think the problem is.
friendly regards max
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