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If you only installed the TBS drivers (you can do this manually) you'd find that they wouldn't work until you copied over the dvb-core modules as well. But now you'd find that every single other driver stopped working. At least for the saa716x and all frontends I've looked at (and specifically the ...

I sympathize with TBS. It's not easy to get the v4l guys to accept code changes. It's much easier to just release your own git repo. Just look at the attempts to get the saa716x driver included in mainline. People have been trying since 2009! And it's still not in there. It's crazy. The saa716x dri...

The open source driver seems to load the firmware on the frontends only when the frontends are first accessed and not when loading the driver module. If VDR checks the frontends one-by-one, this takes some time. You could try to manually (parallely) access each frontend e.g. using the *zap utils fro...

Hi, I've tried to understand the history of this driver. As far as I can see, this driver is - as well as the previous, official, TBS-driver - based on the SAA716x driver by Manu Abraham et al and, in the case of the open source drivers, on the frontend drivers developed by Luis Alves. For what reas...