Advice Needed TBS6982 PCIe card

[Adam792]

Just wondered if anyone could confirm whether the TBS6982 card (not one of the professional ones) is compatible with multistream (with PLS support)?

I've read conflicting advice, but I want to spend the least possible to be able to lock the Italian and French Multistream stuff (with PLS/PLS Gold) on 5W on my linux machine.

 

[Captain Jack]

Well, even my £30 Technisat eXpress card can do that, so I'd be very surprised if TBS6982 couldn't.

 

[CrazyCat]

not compatible

 

[Adam792]

Thanks for the info. What about the TBS6905 (the quad tuner card)?

I'd go for the SkyStar but I need at least two tuners.

 

[CrazyCat]

TBS 6905 based on 2x STV6120/STV0910BDB and support DVB-S2 QPSK/8PSK Multistream with PLS (restricted DVB-S2 VCM support). So this quad card 99% similar to 6908, but not have full support for DVB-S2 ACM/VCM and 16/32APSK. So for maximum power buy dual TBS 6983 (STV6120/STV0910ADB ).

 

[Adam792]

Thanks CrazyCat for your useful information!

I just want to be able to watch multistream PLS DVB-S2 channels from 5W and my budget is quite low so I think I'll get this card.

 

[Adam792]

Just to update everyone, my TBS6905 card came today.

All set-up in my Ubuntu Media Centre and with Crazycat's drivers I've been able to tune in all the French and Italian multistream channels on 5W absolutely fine!

All of the Italian stuff works fine on the Sky Zone 1 minidish I have set-up on 5W, but the French stuff on 12648V requires a bigger dish, I guess because of the high FEC of 8/9 compared to 3/5 for the Italians.

I can pull them in fine on an 80cm. I might try to put up my 60cm dish that's currently at my parents' in place of the minidish to see if that works.

It'd be very good to have FTA versions of the main French channels in HD all in one place for if/when TNTSAT goes off for those of us not using official receivers again!

 

[CrazyCat]

Good news

 

[romaric47]

Hi Adam792,

I'm interested in the french multistream channels on 5W.

Can you tell me how much bitrate in average you get from those channels?

Best regards,

 

[Adam792]

Well they're the feeds for the French digital terrestrial network. It's three 1080i channels to a 24.88Mbps multiplex (three HD multiplexes). :-)

You can see the bitrate of them all measured directly from French DVB-T at www.digitalbitrate.com (stay on that TNT page and select multiplexes 5, 7 and 8 from the dropdown list).

As far as I can tell the picture quality is very good.

 

[romaric47]

Thanks for your answer

I already have the French TNT (yep i'm a french guy ^^).

Just looking for the best source possible and i though that the 5w multifeed would be that source (high bitrate, more like a backhaul source).

But apparently i'm wrong, too bad :'(

I'll keep my research.

 

[Adam792]

Thanks for your answer

I already have the French TNT (yep i'm a french guy ^^).

Just looking for the best source possible and i though that the 5w multifeed would be that source (high bitrate, more like a backhaul source).

But apparently i'm wrong, too bad :'(

I'll keep my research.

No problem!

Yes, they're identical to TNT because the transmitters take the input directly and convert it to DVB-T without re-encoding the transport stream. It's already packaged "ready" for DVB-T transmission

The Italian stations are the same. Each of the multistreams is a 19.9Mbps transport stream ready to be fed into a DVB-T transmitter. For the Rai regional multiplex feeds this consists of two parts, one with Rai 1, Rai 2, Rai News 24 and the radio stations, which I assume is then assembled with the relevant Rai 3 at the transmitter site (again with no re-encoding).

I think the Fransat/BIS streams of the 6 new HD channels are higher bitrate - http://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php?liste=1&live=62&lang=fr&mux=11471

But the Fransat/BIS feeds of TF1 HD, France 2 HD and M6 HD are the same as TNT/the multistream - they fit into 24.88Mbps - http://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php?liste=1&live=62&lang=fr&mux=11096