Am I lucky or am I lucky?

[s53zo]

None of the above, I'm afraid.

I have Technisat Skystar 2 DVB-S card and ATI TV Wonder tuner. With great dissapointment I found out that none of them is supported in GB-PVR. Too bad. They work under Windows with their "native" software.

Is there a plan to add support for these two cards? Or at least for Skystar 2, as I have PVR-500 coming by mail soon.

Best regards,
Simon

[sub]

No, there is no plans to support either of these.

If Technisat produce BDA drivers for it in future, then the Skystar2 may be support, but if not, then you're out of luck.

The PVR500 will work fine.

[s53zo]

Thank you for your reply.

Best wishes for your project.

Regards,
Simon

[lupus11]

As the thread is already some months old and I am just starting with
(hopefully) GBPVR and I only have an SS2 is there still no way to get
it running ?

Thank You
lupus

[funkybro_uk]

As the thread is already some months old and I am just starting with
(hopefully) GBPVR and I only have an SS2 is there still no way to get
it running ?

Thank You
lupus

<SNIP> irrelevant stuff relating to SS1 to avoid any future confusion.

[ArfurAnt]

I think the SkyStar 2 (Flexcop B2C2 Chipset) is a very different beast to the SS1. I also have an SS2 taking up the sole PCI slot in my Shuttle and have been waiting for a BDA driver to be produced so that I can use it with GBPVR.

I will wait a few more months and then probably eBay it and go for a Nova-S, or one of its new cousins instead. It's a shame as the SS2 is a great card, HDTV ready and widely used in Europe.

[lupus11]

Thank you for the answers.

The SkyStar 1 indeed is very different, it has a built in DSP to
do the MPEG decoding, for the SS2 the PC has to do it.

Still I am a bit surprised that such a widely spread card is not
supported, is it so different from the others ?

Apart from this issue GBPVR looks like a great project, keep it up and
keep it free.

Thank you
lupus

[pulling_out_hair]

I was able to get some functionality on a Windows MCE machine with the new BDA drivers by adding the following to the bda.ini file:

[TechniSat DVB-PC TV Star PCI (BDA)]
TUNING_TYPE=ATSC
FILTER_TUNER=TechniSat BDA Digital Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=TechniSat BDA Digital Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport


Unfortunately, every time I record, the file is 0 bytes. Any suggestions?

[sub]

I already responded in your other thread on the same topic: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=6529