From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 20 19:28:24 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74DE2BE5 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:28:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353352C40 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:28:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 50E7A1E000E0; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:28:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from triton8.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8KJPu2G068730; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:25:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox@triton8.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.5/8.14.3/Submit) id r8KJPtJF068729; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:25:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:25:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <201309201925.r8KJPtJF068729@triton8.kn-bremen.de> To: freebsd-multimedia@dino.sk Subject: Re: Technisat DVB-S PCI card X-Newsgroups: local.list.freebsd.multimedia In-Reply-To: <20130920142848.17218ac0@zeta.dino.sk> Organization: Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:28:24 -0000 In article <20130920142848.17218ac0@zeta.dino.sk> you write: >Hi, Hi! > >as part of larger work we gained new cables with both DVB-S and DVB-T >signal. I already know a bit about DVB-T, I can receive streams with >ITE Technologies, Inc. DVB-T TV Stick and VDR (with help from this >list, remote is not yet functional, but this is discussed in another >thread). > >Now I got some older DVB-S card for free and would like to try it. From >'pciconf -lv' I got (slightly reformatted to avoid wrap issues) > >none0@pci0:1:0:0: >class=0x028000 card=0x210313d0 chip=0x210313d0 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Techsan Electronics Co Ltd' > device = 'B2C2 Sky2PC Core Chip sky star 2 (T228502)' > class = network > >With some browsing I was able to find page at >http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TechniSat_SkyStar_2_TV_PCI_/_Sky2PC_PCI >stating it work quite well under Linux. Has anyboady some experience >with it under FreeBSD? Is driver already ported or nothing is done, >yet? In general, how does PCI card usage differ from USB device, >working with webcamd? > webcamd only works for usb hardware, running Linux pci drivers in userland would require at least iommu/vt-d hardware and of course new code, if it makes sense at all. So you'll have more luck using an usb dvb-s(2) tuner like one I use: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Technisat_SkyStar_USB_HD (Yes there also is multimedia/cx88 for some cx88-based pci(e) tuners but it only supports dvb-t and atsc, not dvb-s.) >Regards, >Milan Best, Juergen