Choosing right DVB card to watch satellite TV
Started thinking about DVB-S(2) card for the new LinuxMCE hybrid core. After visit to the DVBShop I found two variants which seem suit for me – Technotrend Budget S2-3200 HDTV-S2 and S-1500. The last one is 100% working solution for Linux and LinuxMCE with VDR 1.6.0. But DVB-S becomes the history and now DVB-S2 seems more perspective. Especially for the coming HDTV. So, S2-3200 in that case will be better solution then S-1500. But from other point of view it’ll need more work to bring it up under VDR 1.6.0 and Kubuntu 7.10.
Well, currently I rate both cards by 50%. But the S2-3200 is tipping the scale little by little. I think that it’s more perspective solution. And it’d be good to experiment with it a bit 🙂
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I’m going to move to new flat at the beginning of the next month. So, I won’t have enough time to build my HTPC. Hope final decision will be done soon 🙂
Hi there,
I have the s2-3200 and have been struggling to get this baby to work.
First tried multiproto module but couldn’t get it to patch/compile/work properly with MythTV or Kaffeine.
Reading the news of linuxtv.org, http://linuxtv.org/news.php?entry=2008-09-23.mchehab apparently multiproto will be dropped for S2API which could/should be part of kernel 2.6.28
Anyhoot, let us know your results. Curious to see how things go for you.
After a serious thoughts I decided to get S-1500 🙂
Nice! this article really helped me out.
Thanks!
Todd D.
Make sure you post when you’ve decided to let us know how good the card you chose is! (I’m in basically the same boat, but I also have to re-wire the flat to get the cable to my computer, so I can wait…)