> > The Mini-ITX boards only allow for one PCI card, so making tiny VDR boxen in > > the UK an impossible task. > > There is allegedly a riser for a second card.
Yep you can buy 2-card risers, but the price suddenly jumps from a few pounds to �80 or so, because it has to include a PCI router chip to allow 2 devices to share one slot :/ > There is also mention of an mpeg decoder that plugs into the "video in" > header. It is from Sigma designs, so might be workable under Linux with > dxr3 driver... Interesting, I'm guessing they just integrated this feature onto the mainboard in the new "Epia M" boards. > > The other slant is dual-DVB systems. One budget and one full-featured. > > Surely it's more sensible to have both cards as full-feature so they can > > tune to the same channels? > > No, because you can only easily use one tv out at the same time Hence the confusion and my second post =)) > > Just buying a DVB-S purely for the MPEG2 decoder seems a terrible waste of > > technology! > > It would probably cost about the same... Still, a full feature DVB-T would mean you could record channels from different mplexes, or even just LAN broadcast different mplexes to other clients... gdh -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
