On Tuesday 23 February 2016 02:02:06 Thierry de Coulon wrote:

> On Tuesday 23 February 2016 05.19:05 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I am a retired television engineer.
> >(...)
> > But that can't effect you. I'd expect the card will need to be
> > replaced with a newer, digital capable card.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > --
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> >  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
>
> Thanks Gene, I'm happy you understand more in the matter than I do.
> However, the problem should not be analog vs digital. I do get digital
> TV on the Sundtek receiver.
>
> The problem is HD vs SD. I do get digital SD, what I don't get is
> digital HD. I don't care - I used the computer to watch news when my
> daughter or wife use the television - but they are closing the SD
> channels on the satellite (says my provider) so we can only watch HD
> in the (very) near future.
>
> So the Sundtek will become useless if I loose these channels (the
> other ones I allready get directly by satellite).
>
> I've tried to generate a config file with w_scan but it crashes badly
> before writing the file. When I have some spare time I'll try
> installing under Windows and/or Mac to see if I can confirm the stick
> _can_ do HD, in which case it would be a Linux problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thierry

In the event that it works for HD with winderz but not linux, the list to 
ask next would be the v4l list on vger.kernel.org (I think, I've not 
been on it in a couple years)  Some pretty sharp digital video folks 
hang out there.  You'll need to show them the lspci or lsusb/lshw output 
so they can properly ID the chipset in the stick.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>