Jörg Knitter wrote:
The Flexcop chip used on the Skystar2 is technically much more advanced than the SAA7146 on the Nova-PCI cards, it supports PID filtering to keep the bus traffic low, has less latency problems and some other nifty features. The fact that these cards are so cheap makes them even more interesting.Hi,I guess this was told on dvb mailinglist. There was a longish discussion about different cards and the limitations of TT Premium. That it was recommended wasn't said, but that it is the cheapest card and that the card is supported. At least since some days is the SS2 2.6b supported too if i read the mailinglist right.Since this weekend I have installed a SkyStar 2 next to my Nexus 2.1as this seemed to be the recommended budgetcard. Unfortunately, there are irregular problems when recording onthis card. Where did you hear that? The AFAIK best supported budget cards are the TT-based models (Nova-(S|C|T), etc.)
Hi, it´s indeed a very cheap card, and I believed to have read here and on vdrportal.de that this card works as a second card. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the case.
There are currently no known serious problems with the skystar driver, development is continous and patches for minor bugs get applied regulary to the CVS repository. Please use the dvb-kernel CVS tree, maybe you have one of the card revisions that caused troubles.There was also indeed a problem with the SS2 2.6b cards as they use a different tuner, but as mine is an older card I believed it to work without problems. Additionally, if you install the DVB drivers, the SS2 drivers are activated by default.