[linux-dvb] Re: Status of HDTV5 lite?

[Michael Krufky]

Luis Ochoa wrote:
> On Mon Sep 26 17:49:38 2005, Michael Krufky <mkrufky at m1k.net> wrote:
> 
>>Great!  The problem was actually occuring on any kind of video mode
>>switch.  Since that last email I wrote, I made even further
>>improvements:  I fixed it such that tv, composite, mute and atsc
>>(obviously) all work correctly, without killing the frontend.  (I had to
>>get composite working in the process, an extra bonus :-D )

If anybody is curious, these fixes have already been merged into 
2.6.14-rc3 (analog support only -- ATSC support still requires 
dvb-kernel cvs)

I'd like to merge the dvb-bt8xx stuff to mainline, but I think we're 
supposed to wait on that until 2.6.15, since it is a new feature.

>>S-Video could still break the frontend, because I have not yet
>>programmed s-video on this board, as I am currently looking for a
>>break-out-box adapter to test this with.  (My break-out-box works just
>>fine for composite, as I have already tested that, but the s-video jack
>>on it is broken.)
> 
> 
> Michael,
> sorry to butt in here, but I'm following this thread closely, since I
> own one of these cards and am getting ready to test it with your fixes
> to the driver.
> Question, kinda OT but still related, are you talking here about the
> "Lite" version? composite/s-video/breakout box? My card is a Lite and
> I only have a coax-in connector.....I can see a connection behind the
> mounting bracket, is it functional?

Not OT at all -- especially since I added cc to the V4L mailing list :-D

I am talking about the Lite model, but the Gold model works as well. 
The connection behind the mounting bracket is exactly the connection 
that I'm talking about -- it works.  I have no idea why DViCO chose to 
hide that behind a metal plate, but I have the card installed in my 
system without the plate at all.  You can probably pick up a new metal 
plate with a hole cut out for s-video... I'll leave that to you ;-)

> Also, and if you don't mind the complete OT, I've been reading the
> list like crazy for the past week or so, when you guys talk about the
> frontend, what is it? is it the actual part of the board that does the
> "tuning", the big metal box? Sorry for the noobiness here.

The big metal box is the TUNER... In your case, it's a LG-H062F ... 
Inside that box, there is a tua6034 pll (this does the actual tuning), 
tda9887 IF demod, and lgdt3303 atsc demod ... That last item is what we 
have been referring to as a "frontend."
> 
> Thanks, Luis.

Cheers,

Michael Krufky