[linux-dvb] Re: problems with budget dvb-s card (SAA7146A)

[Joern Heissler <j.heissler@anixe.de>]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:33:53AM +0200, Holger Waechtler wrote:
> Joern Heissler wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I'm trying to build a digital video recorder with vdr, but I have
> >problems getting my dvb-s card working.
> >
> >you can find the output of the `scan' program at
> >http://wulf.eu.org/scan.out, it's too much to paste here.
> >
> >vdr seems not to receive any data at all from my card. Unfortunately
> >the card has no video out.
> >
> >I've already put another device (external settop box) to the sat cable
> >and this works, so I think that it's a driver issue.
> 
> VDR requires at least one fullfeatured card with av7110 onboard in order 
> to display it's onscreen menu.
> 
> I have no idea what's the state of the software-decoder and OSD support 
> for VDR is, please ask on the VDR mailing list for details.
> 
> Holger

the OSD is displayed in the terminal when I compile vdr with DEBUG_OSD=1
I successfully used a similar card with vdr about one year ago, but the
new card seems to have a new chip revision, dunno.

Since `scan' is not able to tune, I think that the drivers I tried do
not support my card or I've made some mistake installing them :)

Joern


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