Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Laz
On Wednesday 06 Feb 2008, Ondrej Wisniewski wrote: With VDR getting ready for HD-TV it seems that today the MPEG4 decoding can only be done on a high end processor or an external decoder card. Many people are still waiting for a FF DVB-S2 card but it doesn't look very promising at the moment.

[vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Ondrej Wisniewski
With VDR getting ready for HD-TV it seems that today the MPEG4 decoding can only be done on a high end processor or an external decoder card. Many people are still waiting for a FF DVB-S2 card but it doesn't look very promising at the moment. So I was wondering if it would be possible to use

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Tony Grant
Le mercredi 06 février 2008 à 09:58 +, Laz a écrit : I don't think MPEG4 decoding will be supported in this way for a very long time, unless Via have changed their attitudes. (Not really bothered looking into this because HD is years off in the UK where I am, unless you fork out lots

[vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Morfsta
On Feb 6, 2008 9:58 AM, Laz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think MPEG4 decoding will be supported in this way for a very long time, unless Via have changed their attitudes. (Not really bothered looking into this because HD is years off in the UK where I am, unless you fork out lots to Sky!)

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboa rd instead of waitingfor FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Igor
So I was wondering if it would be possible to use the on board video decoder chips of the VIA EPIA boards like the VIA EPIA EX15000G http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboa rd_id=450 This board mounts a CX700M2 chipset which features MPEG2/4 hardware

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboa rd instead of waitingfor FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Igor
So I was wondering if it would be possible to use the on board video decoder chips of the VIA EPIA boards like the VIA EPIA EX15000G http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboa rd_id=450 This board mounts a CX700M2 chipset which features MPEG2/4 hardware

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread JJussi
On Wednesday, 6. Februaryta 2008 13:40:36 Tony Grant wrote: HD needs to be shown at sizes where the extra pixels are worth our while I don't have 3000€ to put into a screen. But some of us do! ;-) -- JJussi ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] DVB-T card on the move

2008-02-06 Thread serge pecher
For who knows french, there is an interresting thread about udev on the dvbkivabien forum. I did use it to have my nexus always as primary device http://dvbkivabien2.info/viewtopic.php?f=21t=11255 Serge -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Ondrej Wisniewski may or may not have written... With VDR getting ready for HD-TV it seems that today the MPEG4 decoding can only be done on a high end processor or an external decoder card. MPEG-4 (or, more specifically, H.264) != HDTV. Sooner or later, it'll be used for 576p or

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Tony Grant
Le mercredi 06 février 2008 à 17:29 +0200, JJussi a écrit : HD needs to be shown at sizes where the extra pixels are worth our while I don't have 3000€ to put into a screen. But some of us do! ;-) I would probably spend a lot more time - enough to justify the cost - in front of TV if I

Re: [vdr] Straw poll: stable version 1.6.0 now?

2008-02-06 Thread Füley István
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Morfsta wrote: Isn't that the fun part of it? I don't watch much TV, but I like fiddling and tuning the VDR! What you said here is absolutely right, i totally agree :) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Jean-Claude Repetto
Darren Salt a écrit : MPEG-4 (or, more specifically, H.264) != HDTV. Sooner or later, it'll be used for 576p or 576i, if it's not being used for that already somewhere. You are right. In France, pay-TV channels (SD) on DVB-T are encoded in MPEG-4 since 2005. Jean-Claude

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Anssi Hannula
Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Ondrej Wisniewski may or may not have written... With VDR getting ready for HD-TV it seems that today the MPEG4 decoding can only be done on a high end processor or an external decoder card. MPEG-4 (or, more specifically, H.264) != HDTV. Sooner or later,

Re: [vdr] DVB-T card on the move

2008-02-06 Thread Rainer Zocholl
[EMAIL PROTECTED](Malte Forkel) 05.02.08 08:11 So how can i nail this moving DVB-T card to a fixed postition? You might try to blacklist the driver modules used for the cards in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and then enter them in /etc/modules in an order of your liking. If you can read German,

Re: [vdr] MainMenuHooks in vdr-1.6.0?

2008-02-06 Thread Joachim Wilke
2008/2/5, Christian Wieninger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: this was the reason to ask now, since we do not already have the stable 1.6.0 ;-) Perhaps you don't know, but a feature freeze is always _before_ the release of a stable version, otherwise this would not be a stable version. Best Regards,

Re: [vdr] DVB-T card on the move

2008-02-06 Thread Rainer Zocholl
[EMAIL PROTECTED](serge pecher) 06.02.08 17:39 Once upon a time serge pecher shaped the electrons to say... For who knows french, there is an interresting thread about udev on the dvbkivabien forum. I did use it to have my nexus always as primary device

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waitingfor FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Igor ha escrit: So I was wondering if it would be possible to use the on board video decoder chips of the VIA EPIA boards like the VIA EPIA EX15000G http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboa rd_id=450 This board mounts a CX700M2 chipset which features

Re: [vdr] need CAM on every DVB device?

2008-02-06 Thread Otto J. Makela
Petri Helin wrote: Simon Baxter wrote: Simple question, do you need a separate CAM for every DVB device you add? I'm receiving a cable service from a single provider and want to decode up to 2 boquets at once. Do both DVB cards need to have their own CI/CAM? AFAIK, that is exactly the

Re: [vdr] DVB-T card on the move

2008-02-06 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi, A dirty but working solution is to unload and load the modules in the right order in startvdr skript. HTH. Halim On Mi, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:08:00 +0100, Rainer Zocholl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED](Malte Forkel) 05.02.08 08:11 So how can i nail this moving DVB-T card to a fixed postition?

Re: [vdr] DVB-T card on the move

2008-02-06 Thread serge pecher
Not at all, you just need to register ! serge -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Rainer Zocholl Verzonden: woensdag 6 februari 2008 21:04 Aan: vdr@linuxtv.org Onderwerp: Re: [vdr] DVB-T card on the move [EMAIL PROTECTED](serge pecher)

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Ondrej Wisniewski a écrit : With VDR getting ready for HD-TV it seems that today the MPEG4 decoding can only be done on a high end processor or an external decoder card. Many people are still waiting for a FF DVB-S2 card but it doesn't look very promising at the moment. So I was

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waitingfor FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 06/02/2008, Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for hdtv - no. I don't see the h.264 hardware decoding. mpeg4 is not h.264. Maybe this thing can be hacked to run vdr or to be used as a front-end: http://www.popcornhour.com/ The popcornhour device (network media tank) is not linux :(

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waitingfor FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I apologies for my mistake, it appears very secretively to run linux, no where clearly stated. There is no source supplied. oh well, aren't we used to that? On 07/02/2008, Theunis Potgieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/02/2008, Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for hdtv - no. I

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waitingfor FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Boguslaw Juza
Hi! Maybe the best solution is to use a hardware STB for IPTV? It takes all soft and stream from ethernet, it allows to control via web based portal. Video stream for this devices is near the same as SAT stream - it needs PAT for one program only, PAT rewriting is easy. Typical STB costs are