[vdr] Re: Siemens dvb-c and HTV

[Marko Myllymaa <myllymaa@niksula.hut.fi>]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Jan Ekholm wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Jonas Munsin wrote:
>
> >linux-dvb@linuxtv.org may be the correct mailinglist for this...
> >
> >On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 09:17:21PM +0200, Marko Myllymaa wrote:
> >> Is the signal i nmy wall outlet that poor that Siemens dvb-c can't have
> >> good reception on QAM128 channels? QAM64 channels are fine, even with the
> >> longer cable.
> >
> >I think I read somehwere that Fujitsu/Siemens cards have poor QAM128
> >reception. I also see more mosaic/skipping disturbances than I'd like to
> >here in Turku with QAM128, in the order of 1-2 /hour.
> >
> >Btw, I have the same problem this thread originally described; the DVB
> >driver (CVS) works pretty good; the dvb-kernel driver (CVS, from a few
> >days ago) is unusable.

I got mine now working. I had to get amplifier for the cable signal. Now
VDR works very nicely.  ^_^

> Are the drivers still developed separately and only merged into the kernel
> every now and then? I mean, are the drivers in the kernel by definition
> always lagging after the CVS drivers and will never contain all the fixes
> nor features? That would also mean that patches to the kernel drivers
> don't necessarily end up in the CVS version, or is there some BitKeeper
> magic that takes care of that too?

So, are you saying that dvb kernel drivers would be better? Why? Is there
any advantages on using dvb kernel drivers instead of "normal" dvb
drivers?


  Marko Myllymaa




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