On Friday 28 March 2003 10:05 am, Gavin Hamill wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:42:56AM -0000, Edward Wildgoose wrote:
[snip] > > Can I also try and glean a little other info which isn't immediately > > obvious without having a card to play with: Do the drivers offer a V4L > > interface to the extent that I can use xawtv, or even mythtv to view > > the picture? Does this still apply if I have a card without an MPEG > > decoder (obviously I realise that the CPU load will be higher). > > You're on the right track :) The full-feature (onboard MPEG decoder) do > provide a V4L /dev/video0 interface, whilst the Nova-T and other budget > cards do not (they are just tuners with a COFDM decoder and spew out a > raw MPEG Transport Stream). > > The 'standard' VDR setup in the UK is a Nova-T (about �100) and a > seperate Creative Dxr3 or Sigma Hollywood+ MPEG decoder card (about �25 > on eBay), since there is a plugin for VDR to use one of these cards as > the primary output device. You can also use the Nova-t with a software decoder such as mplayer. I had it running for several months like this with excellent results. Record/playback/timeshift are all possible on this setup, but it's not nearly as elegant as vdr. Andy -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
