> > > > 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 :/
A pci bridge shouldnt cost this much. Also I got the impression (from the fact theat there are 3 pins allocated as PCI riser, according to the manual) that some of this was built in and these pins just acted as the select lines or something. I may be wrong. > > 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. No, this is the original one. > > > 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... does it? I didnt know this. Does it have 2 tuners then? Justin -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
