> ========================== > Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:51:54 +0100 > From: Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org > Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] hdtv scanning > ========================== > [...] > The whole HDTV thing is of no interest to me until there is > a DVB card that can actually replay HDTV in hardware. Until then > I'm not going to spend any time on this. And by looking at what > great lengths broadcasters are going to just to make sure nobody > sees (let a lone records) their HDTV programmes, it's even questionable > if this will ever become interesting for VDR.
As far as I can get on my side, using a dual core Athlon64 4600+ suffice for this purpose. Not a small pc, of course, but still in reach. The 6600/7600GT Nvidia chipsets offload about 30% the main cpu and H264 programs are received and re played fluently. The real problem with HDTV for me here is that I'm forced to use *Windows*, because my DVB-S2 Technotrend card is, unfortunately, not supported on linux yet, given that HDTV broadcasts are only in DVB-S2, at least in my country. According to my rough estimates, using the linux OS would give a 50% gain in performance, probably further reducing the demand on the above PC hardware. Regards _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
