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phil at csldevices

Jul 5, 2012, 8:36 AM

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CSL Devices Ltd. PRE001 6 tuner DVB-T card

Hi Folks,

The company I work for has been developing a new PCIe based DVB-T tuner
card. The card can support up to 8 tuners, but our current version has 6
DVB-T tuners installed. There is also infra-red support on board with
raw throughput.

We've tested this functionality using our own software running on Linux
and our tests show the card is capable of simultaneously providing up to
16 program streams per tuner.

At the moment we have a small number of cards that we would be prepared
to loan to developers of various GNU/Linux media projects like MythTV
for testing.

If you would be interested in testing one of these cards, please drop me
a mail off-list or I'm willing to answer any questions on list.

Regards,

Philip Downer
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danielk at cuymedia

Jul 12, 2012, 2:33 PM

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Re: CSL Devices Ltd. PRE001 6 tuner DVB-T card [In reply to]

I'm a MythTV developer based in the US. I could give your card a
go using one of my company's machines in the UK. I won't have any
time for it until after IBC in September, but if it still makes sense
for you then I'll be glad to spend a week or two testing it with
MythTV.

The company I work for is Digital Nirvana. We don't make any of
our own hardware so I don't think there is any conflict, we might
even be a prospective customer if the card performs well.

-- Daniel

On 07/05/2012 11:36 AM, Philip Downer wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> The company I work for has been developing a new PCIe based DVB-T tuner
> card. The card can support up to 8 tuners, but our current version has 6
> DVB-T tuners installed. There is also infra-red support on board with
> raw throughput.
>
> We've tested this functionality using our own software running on Linux
> and our tests show the card is capable of simultaneously providing up to
> 16 program streams per tuner.
>
> At the moment we have a small number of cards that we would be prepared
> to loan to developers of various GNU/Linux media projects like MythTV
> for testing.
>
> If you would be interested in testing one of these cards, please drop me
> a mail off-list or I'm willing to answer any questions on list.
>
> Regards,
>
> Philip Downer
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jyavenard at gmail

Jul 12, 2012, 6:02 PM

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Re: CSL Devices Ltd. PRE001 6 tuner DVB-T card [In reply to]

On 13 July 2012 07:33, Daniel Thor Kristjansson <danielk [at] cuymedia> wrote:
> I'm a MythTV developer based in the US. I could give your card a
> go using one of my company's machines in the UK. I won't have any
> time for it until after IBC in September, but if it still makes sense
> for you then I'll be glad to spend a week or two testing it with
> MythTV.

I'm happy to give it a good trial too...
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coronasensei at gmail

Jul 12, 2012, 6:15 PM

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Re: CSL Devices Ltd. PRE001 6 tuner DVB-T card [In reply to]

On 6/07/12 1:36 AM, Philip Downer wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> The company I work for has been developing a new PCIe based DVB-T
> tuner card. The card can support up to 8 tuners, but our current
> version has 6 DVB-T tuners installed. There is also infra-red support
> on board with raw throughput.
>
> We've tested this functionality using our own software running on
> Linux and our tests show the card is capable of simultaneously
> providing up to 16 program streams per tuner.
>
> At the moment we have a small number of cards that we would be
> prepared to loan to developers of various GNU/Linux media projects
> like MythTV for testing.
>
> If you would be interested in testing one of these cards, please drop
> me a mail off-list or I'm willing to answer any questions on list.
>
Any chance of making mac drivers for this card? I'd love to run osx on
my backend, but the lack of tuners available for it makes it difficult.
I guess the relatively small number of macs with pcie around makes it a
smaller market, until you include the hackintosh community.

Andrew
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phil at csldevices

Jul 13, 2012, 3:48 AM

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Re: CSL Devices Ltd. PRE001 6 tuner DVB-T card [In reply to]

On 13/07/12 02:15, Andrew Leech wrote:
> On 6/07/12 1:36 AM, Philip Downer wrote:
>>
>> The company I work for has been developing a new PCIe based DVB-T
>> tuner card. The card can support up to 8 tuners, but our current
>> version has 6 DVB-T tuners installed. There is also infra-red support
>> on board with raw throughput.
>>
> Any chance of making mac drivers for this card? I'd love to run osx on
> my backend, but the lack of tuners available for it makes it difficult.
> I guess the relatively small number of macs with pcie around makes it a
> smaller market, until you include the hackintosh community.

The only driver we have at the moment is for Linux which I wrote. I'm
hoping to be able to push it upstream sometime soon, so it will be
released under the GPL if that helps. I don't have any experience in
writing drivers for osx and neither does anyone else at my company. I
also don't have the hardware or a hackintosh setup. However we'd be more
than willing to work with anyone who would like to write a driver for osx.

Phil
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