[clug] TV Tuner tests

[Richard Lemon]

Hi All,

I was looking for a cheap USB DVB-T tuner available for pick-up in  
Canberra and ended up testing all of the cheap ones available at  
Jaycar. The short of it is that none of the cheaper ones work with  
Linux currently, there are some hybrid DVB-T and analogue tuners that  
are more expensive that I didn't try.

My setup was Ubuntu 9.04 with a pull of the latest source from linuxtv  
compiled against the 2.6.28-17 kernel. There are some useful  
instructions on this process at http://tom.mercelis.be/blog/nl/node/12  
on how to set the correct kernel headers and config.

Of all of the tuners I tried the KWorld usb stick should have worked  
but the chipsets have changed between the 395U and 395UR.

KWorld USB Stick II KW-D-395UR
USB ID 0x1b80:0xe39a
Not a recognized device although it runs an Afatech chip see
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg13680.html

Digitech
USB DVB-T
Digital TV Stick
XC-4888
This one would make a good project for someone looking to get into the  
v4l driver code, there are already quite a few similar drivers and the  
hardware is fairly cheap ($49). It has already been reported on the  
kernel mailing list (http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg12792.html 
).

dmesg output
[   86.064096] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and  
address 2
[   86.200823] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   86.204003] Afatech DVB-T 2: Fixing fullspeed to highspeed  
interval: 10 -> 7
[   86.204384] input: Afatech DVB-T 2 as /devices/ 
pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.1/input/input6
[   86.209286] generic-usb 0003:15A4:9016.0003: input,hidraw2: USB HID  
v1.01 Keyboard [Afatech DVB-T 2] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-2/input1
[   86.413877] af9015: tuner id:179 not supported, please report!
[   86.413891] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_af9015

Kworld
USB DVB-T
Pico TV
UB450-T
Not claimed by any driver.
lsusb output (short)
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1b80:d397

Hope this helps someone,
Richard