I recently bought the Nexus card on-line through www.misco.it, paying just under 300 euro, tax included. I could not find it in local (Milan) retail shops.
-> It does have an external S/PDIF video out and came with a patch cord which contains separate RCA out connectors. But I suppose this all depends on the revision: I noticed that the remote control supplied has more buttons than the one pictured on the box - and did not work automatically with the vdr-remote plug-in; I was able to manually configure it. My overall experience (just 3 wks) has been very positive. My biggest problem was understanding how to configure multiple satellite sources to use with VDR and create the channels.conf file. There was reference to an initial.h file which appears to have been replaced with tuning "seed" files, which worked for two of the three satellites I tune to (Hotbird 13.0, Astra 19.2). In the case of Astra 28.2 (to get BBC 1-4), I had to create a seed file following the other models. All's well that ends well... Good luck, Sean Carlos -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adrian P Challinor Sent: Friday 6 February 2004 8:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: Full featured cards Quoting Carlo, I know of (but don't yet have) a Nexus-S. Yes, it is expensive. I will buy one if I know it is going to work, but doesn't it just have a single Video-IN connector? Looking at the Hauppauge sites, they make no mention of a Video-Out socket. I'm new to this, so I don't want to make any gross statements. However, in my research over the last few months reading web sites and message archives, I get the impression that the cards used by VDR are no longer available to the general public. My alternative to using VDR would be to use MythTV. That does seem to have an MPEG decoding capability. Otherwise, well, it's yet another pseudo device driver to fire MPEG encoded streams at a hardware MPEG decoder->TV out card. Or, throw money at my problem, put a high speed CPU in the box, and do the MPEG decoding in software! -----Original Message----- From: Carlo E. Prelz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 February 2004 07:00 To: Adrian P Challinor; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Full featured cards Subject: [linux-dvb] Full featured cards Date: Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:24:10PM -0000 Quoting Adrian P Challinor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anyone know where you can get the full featured cards that are needed > by VDR? My understanding is that I need at least one card that support > DVB-IN, DVB/TV-OUT and has an MPEG decoder on board. These seem to be in > very short supply on the open market, so if you know of a card that is > available I would be very glad to hear from you. It appears vdr was targeted to the Hauppauge Nexus-s (that is, the old Technotrend full-featured) card. Here in Holland it can be easily found, albeit at a shamefully high price (I found it at a shop of the Mycom chain: www.mycom.nl). I understand that this was the first card that was available to developers. VDR makes use of the V4L-compatible video out that was developed for the Nexus, as well as of the OSD and CAM interface code. I understand that VDR was developed in parallel with the dvb driver. With a Nexus, VDR works perfectly. The unpleasant fact that I am finding out is that the Nexus is old technology: it includes the saa7111 DSP, that does not allow you to extract the complete multiplexed stream - only specific PIDs, and I am experiencing, with the same level of signal, a much higher error rate in the extracted MPEG stream, if compared with the Hauppauge Nova (budget) card. > Otherwise, any reason why I cant use a hi-end AGP card with a TV/DVI-out > capability? In order to generate a video output, VDR needs the capability (provided by the driver) of onboard MPEG conversion, and of on-screen display. I *think* you can use VDR with a budget card for recording, but you cannot see the set-top-box-like output. Porting it to using software MPEG decoding is, I believe, not trivial. Carlo -- * Se la Strada e la sua Virtu' non fossero state messe da parte, * K * Carlo E. Prelz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] che bisogno ci sarebbe * di parlare tanto di amore e di rettitudine? (Chuang-Tzu) -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
