On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:11:38AM +0000, Mark Smith wrote: > I'm looking to build a twin tuner DVB-T box. I had planned to purchase a > couple of the Twinhan Vision+ cards as I've seen these working, but it might > be useful in future to have an option to copy analogue video onto DVD. > > Hence I'm looking at possibly purchasing one Avermedia or Pinnacle > MediaCentre 300i card as currently sold in the UK by Scan Computers. Does > anyone have any first-hand experience of having these work or not work as DVB > cards with Myth? How about for digitising analogue content (not necessarily > using Myth, but under Linux)?
I wouldn't touch any DVB card based on the BT878 with a 40 foot barge pole. See the linux-dvb archives for my reasons why. Both of these cards use that chip; in general, the cheaper cards use it. I'd be particularly concerned about using two of them in the same system. The problem is that they don't have enough on-board buffer space to cope with any other traffic on the PCI bus. For me, the Avermedia card plus the SATA controller on the same PCI bus was too much. Two of these cards may be too much for your system, especially if you have any other stuff on the bus. Any card with the newer cx2388x chipset is fine. For example the KWorld Xstream PCI card, FusionHDTV (except the Lite), latest Nova-T etc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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