DVB-S PCI Cards

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This is an overview of LinuxTv supported DVB-S PCI cards. If you need more technical information on a device, have a look at it's specific wiki article.

DVB-S Full-Featured Cards

All these so called full-featured cards have the AV711x MPEG2 Decoder onboard. Please be sure to know their limitations before you are going to spend too much money for these cards. You need at least one of them in your VDR System unless you install the VDR Software Decoder Plugin. All other DVB programs don't have this limitation.

The more modern approach are the decoder-less cards listed below, every modern computer is able to decoder MPEG2 in software.


Vendor

Model number

Price

Linux-Support
Peripheral connectors
Comments Pictures
Links
Developer Infos

Rev. 1.3 sold as:

Fujitsu-Siemens
DVB-S Rev 1.3

supports: DVB, VDR

Connectors:

  • Sat in
  • Sat out
  • Composite
  • Audio 3,5mm
  • Jumper2
Compared to other Revisions:
  • Sound not that brilliant (has 81dB dynamic at 16Bit)
  • 4-5% of the Tuners need a lot of power and get really hot
  • a design-fault in the 5V power supply of the Tuners causes unstable SNR und STR, but there's a mod for that.
  • symbolrates > 8 MBaud can be used

Rev. 1.3 sold as:

Galaxis PCTV-SAT
DVB-S Rev 1.3

supports: DVB, VDR

Connectors:

  • Sat in
  • Sat out
  • Composite
  • Audio 3,5mm
  • Common Interface
  • Jumper2
Compared to other Revisions:
  • 4-5% of the Tuners need a lot of power and get really hot
  • symbolrates > 8 MBaud can be used

Rev. 1.3 sold as:

SATELCO Highend PCI (DVB-S)
DVB-S Rev 1.3

supports: DVB, VDR

Connectors:

  • Sat in
  • Composite
  • Audio 3,5mm
  • Common Interface Connector
Compared to other Hardware:
  • Tuner is much better than Twinhan VP-1030.

Rev.1.5 sold as:

TechniSat
SkyStar 1 Rev 1.5, tt2000.8

supports: DVB, VDR

Connectors:

  • Sat in
  • Composite
  • Audio 3,5mm
  • Jumper2
Compared to other Revisions:
  • Sounds better (has 101dB dynamic at 24bit)
  • uses LNBP16 (not LNBP13) => 650mA (was: 500mA) for LNB
  • symbolrates: 1-45 Mbaud
Technisat skystar 1.jpg

Rev.1.6 sold as:
Hauppauge
DVB-S_ff_rev1.6

Fujitsu-Siemens
DVB-S_ff_rev1.6

supports: DVB, VDR

Connections:

  • Sat in
  • Composite
  • Audio 3,5mm
  • Jumper2
Compared to other Revisions:
  • Sounds better (has 101dB dynamic at 24bit)
  • doesn't produce that much heat => QPSK Demodulator IC doesn't need a metal-heatpipe
  • uses LNBP16 (not LNBP13) => 650mA (was: 500mA) for LNB
  • 2 Watt safety - less crashes because of heat
  • symbolrate 8-45 Mbaud
Fujitsu-Siemens dvb-s rev1.6.jpg

Rev.2.1 sold as:

Hauppauge
WinTV Nexus-s Rev 2.1

Hauppauge WinTV Nexus-s Rev.2.1.jpg
supports: DVB, VDR

Connections:

  • Sat in
  • Sat out (only BSRU6-701a Tuner)
  • Connector for Audio/Video cable
  • Connection for IR-Receiver
Compared to other Revisions:
  • Sound not that brilliant (has 81dB dynamic at 16Bit)
  • IR -Remote included (Nexus)
  • Connectorcable included (digitaler audio output, Video...)
  • symbolrate 1-45 Mbaud
Hauppauge WinTV Nexus-s Rev.2.1.jpg

Rev.2.2 sold as:

Hauppauge
WinTV Nexus-s Rev.2.2

supports: DVB, VDR

Connections:

  • Sat in
  • Sat out (only BSRU6-701a Tuner)
  • Connector for Audio/Video cable
  • Connection for IR-Receiver
Compared to other Revisions:
  • like Rev. 2.1 but other Vendor-ID and other Soundchip
  • Sounds better (has 101dB dynamic at 24bit)
  • IR -Remote included (Nexus)
  • Connectorcable included (digitaler audio output, Video...)
  • symbolrate 1-45 Mbaud
Hauppauge WinTV Nexus-s Rev.2.2.jpg

DVB-S Budget Cards

The way to go if you own a recent computer and are not willing to spend too much money for state-of-the art technology.

Manufacturer /

Model number /

Price

Supports Tuner / Chips Connections Others Pictures
Digital Rise

DTV PCI Sat CI

DVB Sat in

Common Interface

Twinhan Card List constructor page
Hauppauge

WinTV Nova-SE2
Modell 639

DVB Sat in
NOVA-SE2.jpg

Hauppauge

WinTV NOVA-s PCI
Modell 541 [1]

DVB, VDR Sat in [2]
Hauppauge

Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-s Plus PCI
Modell 794

DVB, VDR CX24123, ISL6421 Sat in

S-Video in Video-Chinch (FBAS)-In iR-Remote Audio-LineIn

Nova-s-plus board front.jpg

NOVA-S-PlusMCE board angle.jpg

Hauppauge

NOVA-CI
Modell 588 [3]

DVB, VDR Sat in

Common Interface

Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-Ci.jpg

Hauppauge-nova-ci-modul.jpg

[4]

Fujitsu-Siemens

Activy DVB-S Budget

DVB, VDR Sat in
Fujitsu-Siemens Activy DVB-s budget.jpg
Technotrend

PCline budget DVB-S[5]

DVB, VDR Sat in

Common Interface

Technotrend PCline budget DVB-S.jpg
Technotrend

TT-budget S-1500[6]

DVB, VDR BSBE1-502A, SAA7146A, LNBP21 Sat in

IR connector Common Interface

TechniSat SkyStar 2 TV PCI / Sky2PC DVB, VDR Sat in
Technisat Skystar2 front.jpg
Technisat Skystar2 back.jpg
TELES Strato SkyDSL PCI rev1.4 DVB SAA7146, S5H1420
Technotrend design
Sat in
Twinhan Technology DVB, VDR Sat in, some Sat out Twinhan Card List
TwinhanVP-1025.jpg
Hercules VP-1030 and Clones

Smart TV Satellite alias Pinnacle PCTV Sat CI
TechniSat SkyStar 1 CI(v3.0 only)

DVB Sat in

Common Interface

Twinhan Card List
Hercules smart sat front.jpg
Pinnacle PCTV Sat CI front.jpg
Pinnacle PCTV Sat CI back.jpg
Technisat Skystar1CI v3 0 front.jpg
Technisat Skystar1CI v3 0 back.jpg
DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-S CX2388X +

STV0299B + LG QPSK NIM

Sat in x 2
Pinnacle PCTV Sat
KNC1 TV-Station DVB-S English DVB Philips SAA7146 chipset

Philips SU1278 tuner (warning : SH and SHA flavours supported
Philips Tuner 1278/SH-2,TUA6100 (PLL) is supported since Kernel 2.6.19

Sat in
Common_Interface
KNC1 TV-Star DVB-S English DVB, since kernel 2.6.16 Philips SAA7146 chipset

Philips SD1878 tuner

Sat in
Sat Out
LifeView

FlyDVB-S [7]

DVB supported in v4l-dvb Philips SAA7134

Philips TDA8262 tuner Philips TDA10086 frontend
Intersil ISL6421ER LNB supply

Sat in

S-Video in
Composite in
Remote in

Support Linux kernel 2.6.10. analog only LR300.jpg