[linux-dvb] Multiproto ???

[Gregoire Favre]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:16:22PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

Hello,

> I also find the current situation rather confusing.
> What exactly is *the* multiproto driver I should use when
> (soon) starting to adopt the various patches to VDR regarding
> DVB-S2 etc.?

If you want to use the patches sent on the VDR ml then you have to use
hg clone http://jusst.de/hg/multiproto

as described at :
http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/OpenSuSE_DVB-S2_-_Step_by_Step_Installationsanleitung_%28Achtung_Beta%29

Even with non DVB-S2 cards, the tuning is faster (at least for me).

If you have an Hauppauge HVR-4000 you will need one more patch, which
you can find at :

http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2008-January/022762.html
I needed to modify the one posted earlyer because I have multiple cards
and VDR has to know the HVR-4000 can do DVB-S2 tunings.

And the firmware for it :
http://dev.kewl.org/hauppauge/utils/wget-fw.sh

> It would be nice if ther was a central repository (at linuxtv.org?)
> where *the* driver could be downloaded, just as it was in the good old
> days...

I totally agree, for example the support for Hauppauge HVR-4000 is
almost finished, but will maybe never be included :-(

I really hope the situation could become better ;-)
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