From: "David Rincon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'd like to know if I could do the same with the DVB-S card. My > objective is to tune Euro1080 (www.euro1080.tv) and play it with xine. > > Has anybody done it already? Do you know which problems I'll face with? > I'd like to know it before I buy the card and the dish.
As long as it is a "budget" card, the hardware should be able to do it. I am receiving the Euro1080 test broadcasts with the "Lorenzen DVB-S" card (which, like the Hauppauge cards, is nothing but a relabeled TechnoTrend budget card), and the card itself has no problems at all receiving the data (why should it anyway...). Top problem (at least on Windows) is: CPU power. It'll require at least a 2.4GHz CPU to decode the HDTV stream in real time, and higher is better. Note that on Windows I got hardware accelerated MPEG-2 decoding (IDCT and motion compensation on the GeForce 488 Go and the ATI Radeon 9700), so if that is not utilized by your Linux driver/software, you'll need even faster CPUs... But, as far as the DVB-S receiver card is concerned, that should be ok. Regards, -- Robert Schlabbach e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin, Germany -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
