Am Die, 2003-07-01 um 15.06 schrieb Adrian Wilkins: > Just got a shiny new Hauppauge DEC2000-T and spent the evening > enjoying the Wimbledon coverage. > > The primary aim of purchasing this box was to investigate the > possibilities of a living-room PVR system. > > With that in mind, I have started to compile a feature wishlist ; some > of these things are obvious, like better integration with EPG > information, etc, but I have a group of features that require certain > technical capabilities in the box. A cursory search through this list > has not turned up positive or negative information regarding these > features, so I'm going to ask. > > Firstly, I believe someone has asked this already, but I saw no > answer. > > 1) Is there provision for a PC connected to the unit to drive the > DEC2000 overlay UI in any way, and conversely, for the unit to send > commands to the PC through the USB link? > I think this is obviously technically feasible, but that it's likely > that no provision exists in the current firmware. > > And secondly, I have not seen this one asked. > > 2) The unit is obviously capable of > - receieving an MPEG2 stream through the tuner > - decoding an MPEG2 stream to a framebuffer and thus rendering it to > a TV > - passing the MPEG2 stream from the tuner to a PC connected through > the USB > > So my question is, could you pass an MPEG2 stream to the DEC2000 > decoder from the PC via the USB link? > > In addition, if the first is true, would the unit be capable of > simultaneously streaming MPEG2 data from the tuner TO the PC, while > receieving an MPEG2 stream FROM the PC and decoding it to the > framebuffer?
Hauppauge claims the box to do recordings. That means the box can send and receive MPEG by USB. I don't know the status of DEC-2000T in LinuxDVB-driver, but if API is full-supported by firmware and driver, VDR (VideoDiscRecorder) should run with it. Rene -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
