DNTV Live QuattroS or simialr with Linux support?

[jalyst]

Hi All,

I bought a QuattroS over 3-years ago...
http://www.digitalnow.com.au/product_pages/QuattroS.html

I am finally putting all the pieces together for a HTPC/PVR! Only took me over 6-years! :rolleyes:

I've checked.....
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Video_capture_card
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Tuners:_Supported_Tuners

And as far as I can see there's zilch support :( It looks like someone started but ran into roadblocks & has not progressed since:
http://www.interlink.com.au/rad/quattros/

As I recall the only notable features missing from the QuatrroS were; CI for CAMS, DVB-S2 support, & HW encode for transcoding of analogue.

The latter was no "biggy" if one had a top-notch CPU/Mem sub-system and it's even less of an issue post 'Core micro-architecture'!
Aside from these limitations it was almost perfect; four simultaneous streams is golden! ;-P

I guess I'm wanting to know....

Has anyone been able to get this device working nicely in MythTV? And if not....
Does anyone know of a card that has the same functionality or better that does work well in Myth?

It doesn't have to be; dual hybrid + dual dvb-s + analogue AV-in + FM tuner...
dual hybrid + dual dvb-t + analogue AV-in + FM tuner or similar would be just as interesting!
I'm not sure I'd ever get round to making use of dvb-s anyway!

Any advice/knowledge that can be imparted would be greatly appreciated!

adios

[jalyst]

Can anyone possibly offer up some advice/knowledge here?
Some further info about my situation/requirements...
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1317048

[jalyst]

Some good feedback here for those who might've been interested
http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?p=10784427

[Ghitulescu]

I left the PC long time ago in favour of standalones...
I hate also combos be they printers, PC cards etc ...

however during that time I never ever bought a card or any other device without knowing its software support in advance. What good to have a hydrogen-fueled car when there are no hydrogen gas stations?
My PC-PVR at that time had 2 cards (non-conflicting drivers, lucky me) one for DVB-S and one for DVB-T. Both were excellent and had excellent support in software (commercial and free, Windows, Linux, Mac etc.). And most important, I could use them in parallel, even use the onboard decoder of one of them to decode DVDs in hardware.

My advice, sell it and buy 3 decent cards instead, with adequate software support ...

[jalyst]

Yeah there were drivers "in the works" for Linux but it died off.

What cards did you have?
Simpler cards but more of them does prolly lend itself to being more reliable.

I still want at least dual DVB-T though.
Preferably (but not critical) low profile.

There may actually be support coming through for the QuattroS.
Waiting to hear back from a new dev working on it...

Cheers

[Ghitulescu]

For DVB-S I had the mother of all: Technotrend rev. 1.5
For DVB-T I had a Cinergy (it was a clone, as Terratec only relabels things).
Both PCI.

[jalyst]

For DVB-S I had the mother of all: Technotrend rev. 1.5
For DVB-T I had a Cinergy (it was a clone, as Terratec only relabels things).
Both PCI.

DVB-T & maybe DVB-C cards are more of a priority for me.
As I have infrastructure for them & there's more than enough content between the two.

I will eventually get a DVB-S2 card though...
Particularly if I can't get the QuattroS working in Linux.