Update 11. February 2010

[Sundtek]

Version: http://www.sundtek.de/support/empia_installer_100222.sh
sha1sum: ff20a40e2d507d73d866b950ea490f01b8c29b28

* enabled standby support, the device will cool down after 15 seconds of inactivity (this also increases the lifetime of the device)
* added support for new DVB-C/DVB-T only devices
* Bugfix VLC 1.0.2
* Updated Notebook Standby support for the USB driver
* updated videostandards PAL-M/Secam-L (Secam L will be optimized in a hotfix update)
* analog audio offset is adjustable by a threshold value
* Bugfix VDR multiple devices
* updated Trident Firmware, SECAM-L/France is now supported

[magician]

With this new driver version kaffeine stopped working on my system. It works well with the driver from January 25. With the new version mplayer still works, but kaffeine hangs as soon as I try to watch a DVBC source or scan the channels.

[Sundtek]

We will check this today, a new update is already planned for next week in order to fix SECAM-L (we are waiting for an updated firmware from Trident) and a few VDR issues with multiple devices.

Edit 22. Feb 2010
We updated the driver with the latest analog TV firmware from Trident (SECAM-L is working) we also tested kaffeine with it and it worked properly. If you still experience any issue with this release please let us know.

[R.M.M]

I have a similar problem with Kaffeine. I'm setting the dongle in DVB-T mode and trying to scan for channels. The program starts scanning, but it hangs at 12% or 22%, sometimes after 10-15 minutes goes farther and finds some senders and hangs again for the next 15 minutes. In many cases if the scan reaches 100%, the program freezes and can be only killed. I've waited for more than 30 minutes a few times with no effect.

By the way, how long does the full scan usually take? Are 40-60 minutes normal?

[Sundtek]

It's not normal, we'll check it within the next days.
We are preparing a few more updates since pulseaudio (again) seems to cause trouble on some systems...

[R.M.M]

The problem with kaffeine has been solved on my system. After the signal level falls under about 40-45% the channel scan takes a great amount of time and maybe because of some timeouts causes the freeze of kaffeine. With signal levels at above 70% kaffeine works perfectly and the scan is much quicker complete!

[Sundtek]

We will check it again with a weaker signal, and try to speed it up if possible.

[erdah]

I'm having problems when putting my Ubuntu 9.04 in suspend mode. When waking the system up the DVB doesn't work. I have to reboot Ubuntu one time, sometimes even twice, to get it working again.

I didn't have this problem in the previous driver version.