[vdr] Re: DXR3

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:58:36AM +0000, Laurence Abbott wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:28, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > Tony Houghton wrote:
> > > I should have asked myself why anyone would want to give one of these
> > > away if they're so good. Has anyone actually got one of these working
> > > (at all, let alone with VDR) with a 2.6 kernel? Or even a 2.4 kernel,
> > > because with the last card I tried, I even tried that with the "stable"
> > > driver. For 2.6 you have to use the CVS version.
> > 
> > With mandrake (I'm using 10.0 currently) it works right out of the box
> > (microcode and utilities are in the rpm package "em8300"), with kernel
> > 2.6. In fact the driver in mandrake works better for me than the cvs
> > version.
> 
> Works fine for me! I'm using a 2.6 kernel, cvs drivers, vdr-1.3.15, and
> the current dxr3 plugin (0.2.3-pre2, I think it is).
> 
> When I was originally setting this up, I was trying to get it to work as
> an overlay, i.e. on a monitor. That never really worked! The older
> em8300 drivers I tried required grabbing the microcode from the a
> windross driver but there were two possibilities and I could never
> really work out which one to use!
> 
> The cvs driver has the microcode in the modules directory: em8300.uc
> 
> You may need a bit of a tweak of the module parameters but I don't
> really remember that being too bad.
> 

I'm also using dvb-budget card with dxr3, and it works OK. 

Although the av-sync is not correct all the time.. but I think there's some
kind of rewrite going on for the vdr-dxr3 plugin so hopefully that solves
the issues.

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