[shms]

Hi, im looking for a dual dvb-c pci express card thats working with tvheadend, recomendations?

[Johnnygo]

I'm using this one:
http://shop.digital-devices.de/epages/62...rie/DVBC_T
After installing the alternative drivers for linux, it's working perfect.

Once I had physically installed this card into my server I ran lspci to check it was detected:

Code:

lspci -v

This gave me the following output:

Code:

04:00.0 Multimedia controller: Device dd01:0003
Subsystem: Device dd01:0020
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at febf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]

To install the drivers I had to add the yavdr/main ppa to my sources and insall the linux-media-dkms package

Code:

add-apt-repository ppa:yavdr/main
apt-get update
apt-get install linux-media-dkms

Again I ran the list pci command

Code:

lspci -v

This now gave me the following output:

Code:

04:00.0 Multimedia controller: Device dd01:0003
Subsystem: Device dd01:0020
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at febf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [70] MSI: Enable- Count=1/2 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [90] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0000 Rev=0 Len=00c
Kernel driver in use: DDBridge
Kernel modules: ddbridge

To double check it was working

Code:

dmesg | grep DDBridge

This gave me the following output:

Code:

[ 16.526377] DDBridge 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 16.526385] DDBridge driver detected: Digital Devices Cine S2 V6 DVB adapter
[ 16.535190] DVB: registering new adapter (DDBridge)
[ 16.800151] DVB: registering new adapter (DDBridge)

[shms]

thanks man, this card seems interesting any downside at all besides the crappy original drivers?

[Johnnygo]

Downsides? Maybe the price.
I have running this card for over a year now without any problems. I only needed the right driver to get it running!

[FutureCow]

I'm also looking for this card, what about channel switching times? (SD/HD)?

I have the FireDTV card at the moment, but not working correct all the times. swichting times: SD 1-2 sec HD: 3-5 sec

[Johnnygo]

Channel switching is really fast. I get about 1 sec or less for SD, and about 2 sec for HD.
But it looks like XBMC needs this extra time to start playing the HD channel.

FireDTV also didn't work out for me. It works perfect under windows. But it has driver issues under linux.