New dvb-s2 tuner, and a hack to get remaining remotes working

[Juergen Lock]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 06:29:22PM +0000, Tom Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:
> ....
> >  The new tuner is a "TechnoTrend S2-3600 DVB-S2 USB" and it needs
> > a small patch that Hans already committed to webcamd svn:
> >
> >        http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/webcamd/patch-pctv452e.c.txt
> >
> 
> Thanks! I was about to come and pester HPS to see if he could do
> anything about this!
> I recently bought one of this exact model as you had earlier reported
> that the pc452e worked well.
> Was playing with it last night, and could get front end lock no
> problem, but recording or viewing any channel gave massive corruption.
> Just rebuilding webcamd now to test..
> 
> +1, all works well now! I simply copied the patch to
> multimedia/webcamd/files rather than rebuilding from svn.

Glad that it works for you!  Are you now going to test vdr too? :)

Btw the patch in svn is now missing the previous hunk, which just
caused a bit of headscratching here...

Index: patches/pctv452e.c.diff
===================================================================
--- patches/pctv452e.c.diff	(revision 1723)
+++ patches/pctv452e.c.diff	(working copy)
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 --- pctv452e.c.orig
 +++ pctv452e.c
+@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "Turn on/off deb
+ 
+ DVB_DEFINE_MOD_OPT_ADAPTER_NR(adapter_nr);
+ 
+-#define ISO_BUF_COUNT      4
+-#define FRAMES_PER_ISO_BUF 4
++#define ISO_BUF_COUNT      2
++#define FRAMES_PER_ISO_BUF 56
+ #define ISO_FRAME_SIZE     940
+ #define ISOC_INTERFACE_ALTERNATIVE 3
+ 
 @@ -1367,14 +1367,14 @@ static struct dvb_usb_device_properties 
  
  		/* parameter for the MPEG2-data transfer */

 Cheers,
	Juergen