From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 20 15:15:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5771065670 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:15:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A92628FC13 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:15:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vampire.homelinux.org (dslb-088-064-190-015.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.64.190.15]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MQs8Y-1NPSVN0shi-00UPKd; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:15:11 +0100 Received: (qmail 46156 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2010 15:15:10 -0000 Received: from f8x64.laiers.local (192.168.4.188) by laiers.local with SMTP; 20 Jan 2010 15:15:10 -0000 From: Max Laier Organization: FreeBSD To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:15:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-RELEASE-p2; KDE/4.3.4; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201001201615.10671.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/Bkfd5TLc830uKeHVglGZP2JlyYVv1IJI63hd nz4OMgHcm5qacvmPkyp2cFyQfS3wnxBMzWz4zUpwHZcRHhYd1H wD2NFqkkYfSVBixxuJ/MQ== Cc: Subject: Re: DVB-S support on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:15:13 -0000 On Wednesday 20 January 2010 15:26:01 Stephen Blott wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any DVB-S (or DVB-S2) cards that are likely to work with FreeBSD? > > In particular, I'm interested in Freesat, but I'm guessing that any DVB-S > card would do the trick. There appears to be support for digital > television through the cx88 port. But from reading various websites it > seems that that's only functional for DVB-T. > > What card might I buy? Or should I just give up? Not at all. You could try to find a mantis driven card (e.g. TechniSat SkyStar[2] or certain Terratec Cinergy). My mantis base driver is stable and functional by now and the userland is coming together, too. You will have to put a little work into the userland driver part to setup the tuner and frontend, but this is a relatively simple copy&paste job from the linux driver and I'm willing to help with that, too. Get in touch if you are interested in this. -- Max