Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 16:10:36 +0300 From: "Konstantin Dimitrov" <kosio.dimitrov@gmail.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New cards and analog support for cx88 Message-ID: <8103ad500809070610k24a0c3c0m981a0c0a82e392d8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080906225641.ad086fb0.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <200809061322.37736.jason.harmening@gmail.com> <20080906225641.ad086fb0.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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hello All, i want to thank Jason again for his tremendous and excellent work on the cx88 drivers! the ability to watch digital television really makes huge difference in my FreeBSD experience as a desktop OS and without Jason's work i wouldn't have what to patch in order to add support for cards like WinTV-HVR-4000. On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:22:37 -0500 > Jason Harmening <jason.harmening@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have a new snapshot of the cx88 driver here: > > Very nice! > Congrats with the big improvements to all the involved people. > > One question: does cards with the "cx88 chipset" support dvb-c? If so, > will this driver support dvb-c devices in te future? Conexant CX2388x is capable and can be used on DVB-C card, but AFAIK there aren't any CX2388x based DVB-C cards available. > I tried searchin the net for info abut this, but didn't find anything > useful. > >> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-4000 (DVB-T) > > Hmm, is this the HAU-354 model, the HAU-1170 model, or both? using Hauppauge model numbers to identify the card is not a good idea at all, because their model numbers are complete mess and that will lead to great confusion what is actually supported and what is not. for example, there is one model number on the box of my WinTV-HVR-4000: "model 1170, SL-1170-V2.0-UK" and another numbers on the card itself: "69009 rev. B2D3", but Hauppauge software for Windows identifies my card as "model 69009". so, which model number is the correct one - "model 1170" or "model 69009"? they are both equally correct or incorrect and to lower the confusion from now on i will refer to the number on the box as "model number" and for the numbers on the card as "version number" and "revision". for WinTV-HVR-4000 i am aware of 3 model number numbers (1170, 1168, 364) and at least 4 version numbers (69559, 69009, 69569, 69??? - i don't know the exact number of the last one), not to mention that model 69009 has at least two revisions: B2D3 and B2A0 that have slightly different DVB-T/Analog frontends - respectively FMD1216MEX and FMD1216ME. i've made an attempt to collect all information about different models/versions/revisions of Hauppauge cards in the table here: http://xkodi.svobodno.com/cx2388x/ but i failed, because it's very hard and time consuming to collect such information. please, do NOT refer to that table, because it's not complete and probably will never be. however, the table contains some good information about different version numbers of WinTV-HVR-4000: http://xkodi.svobodno.com/cx2388x/cards/hauppauge/69xxx/ as you can see the differences between different WinTV-HVR-4000 models are very minor and don't really affect the DVB-T/DVB-S/DVB-S2 support, but mainly affect the analog audio/video inputs and remote control support. so, it is far better to talk about supported DVB-T/Analog frontends, DVB-T demodulators, DVB-S/S2 frontends and DVB-S/S2 demodulators. currently, DVB-T is supported on every CX2388x based card that has DVB-T Demodulator: - Conexant CX22702 and one of the following DVB-T/Analog Frontend: - Thomson DTT7579 - Thomson DTT7592 - Thomson DTT75105 - Philips FMD1216ME - Philips FMD1216MEX DVB-S/S2 is supported on every CX2388x based card that has DVB-S/S2 Demodulator: - Conexant CX24116 and DVB-S/S2 Frontend: - Conexant CX24118A please, note that DVB-S/S2 support is not in the current code, because it's not mature enough, but it's working - i'm watching DVB-S/DVB-S2 television on WinTV-HVR-4000 with my development version of the DVB-S/S2 support code. so, based on the supported frontends/demodulators i know for the following cards that should have - working DVB-T support: Club3D Zap TV2100 Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-T Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1100 Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1300 Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-3000 Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-4000 Leadtek WinFast DTV1000T Leadtek WinFast DTV2000H Terratec Cinergy 1400 DVB-T VStream Xpert DVB-T - working DVB-S and DVB-S2 support: DVBWorld PCI2004C Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-4000 Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-HD-S2 Omicom SkyStar4 TBS 8920 TeVii S460 but probably there are other cards that are using the same frontends/demodulators and thus can be supported without additional code with only adding their PCI IDs to the current code. most of those cards have analog TV and FM radio capabilities too that may work out-of-the-box with the code or may need additional work. best wishes, konstantin > -- > Regards, > Torfinn Ingolfsen > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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