Paraic McDonagh wrote:
> Hi Saen, Yes, I've been tinkering with make menuconfig for a while now. I've tried lots of different configurations, selecting the relevant device components you mentioned but none have resulted in both tuner devices working at the same time. Unless someone can help me with exactly what are the minimum set of options needed to get the Mygica stick working, I don't think I'll ever solve this.
> I'm looking at manually loading kernel modules as a possible line of investigation, but I've already spent too much time at this now and may have to look at other options.
The problem is, is that TBS use a heavily customised version of linux_media, so heavily customised that it'soften incompatible with mainline linux_media, it also means that improvements/fixes to mainline rarely make it into the TBS version unless it affects a TBS product.
From a users view this is highly inconvenient, from TBS' view it makes sense as it means your only options are to buy more TBS tuners, or if you're lucky enough have a device that's old enough to have been supported by linux_media for years, the TBS version supports it too.
Some TBS devices do have mainline support and there have been [multiple] attempts to get more devices supported, but from what I've seen on the mailing list, they've often been rejected due to quality issues.
TBS [from my view] are trying to improve things, putting their source code on Github, hiring (I think?) Crazy Cat to work on the drivers etc.
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I personally won't buy TBS branded a product [again] without knowing for sure that mainline has support for it.
@Paraic you have a few options that I can think of [I'm sure people have more].
* Attempt to merge the linux_media versions.
* Request TBS update their sources to include your device.
* Return/Sell your TBS products and purchased mainline supported ones.
* Split the tuners up & run them on two different systems [or virtual machines] and use something like minisatip or TVHeadend to act as a satip server.