[vdr] Re: Sky Digibox vdr support (was: Composite / S-VHS input ?)

["Andy Coates" <andy@bribed.net>]

> >The DVB-SPI card I saw was a Dektec DTA-122 (www.dektec.com 
> - about 1100
> >Euros), and apparently they'll have linux drivers before the 
> end of the
> >year.  Maybe a VDR plugin could be made for it :)
> 
> Whooow, 1100 Eur!!! .-((.

Exactly :)
 
> If you are doing a board to peek the signal from the DigiBox, 
> you should
> think also on do other (very small) one to feed the signal on 
> your TT_DVB
> card (budget or premium) :-)). On this boards, on the 
> SAA7146, you have
> a free D1 port (Digital Video) and the current drivers 
> support to capture
> from it (used in the budget cards, to get access to the full TS :-).

I don't see any "ports" on my Hauppauge NOVA DVB-T, although there is
the chip you mention.

> I'm working on some related, to have access to the full TS on 
> the TT_DVB 
> premium cards, adding only 12 wires between the tunner 
> outputs and some 
> pins of the SAA7146. As the pins of the SAA7146 are spaced at 
> 0.65mm, the 
> soldering of the wires would be very hard, so I've done a 
> small PCB (5mm) 
> wich is inserted between the SAA7146 pins and the tunner 
> pins, allowing
> a more easy soldering. I've modified the DVB drivers and the 
> "thing" is
> working on some degree: I can get the full TS or demuxed 
> streams, but the 
> VDR generate a Kernel Panic ('Aiee, Killing interrupt 
> handler!') that I 
> have to debug :-((. I'm a newcomer to Linux (about three 
> months) and C 
> programming, but after have it full working and documented, 
> I'll publish
> it.

Are there any other programs which car take a raw TS stream and process
it?  Similar to what you describe above, but without having to mutate an
existing card :)

Sounds a lot cheaper than the Dektec card, but I'd love to hear if
anyone else has seen PCI Cards that can take a TS via some port.

Andy. 



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