Re: [vdr] Lightning destroyed my 4 DVB-S cards, what should I replace them with?
Carsten Koch wrote: Should I still buy a FF card at all or does xine or softdevice work just as reliably by now? I don't have a FF card but using a dxr3 in my 2nd vdr box so I have some experience about HW decoded vdr -- but If you have a flat panel TV with HDMI/DVI input, I believe all the softdevices around will provide a high quality scaled and deinterlaced progressive output via graphics card DVI output. Sound cards with SPDIF or optical Toslink will give high quality audio if you have an AV receiver. I'm using myself xinelibout in daemon mode 24/7 and use vdr-sxfe (fired from Matchbox desktop that is controlled by Lirc) to connect to VDR to provide 50Hz 720p full-screen video. MPEG Decoding (Xv) is suspended by a plugin after a timeout. Cheers, Seppo ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Lightning destroyed my 4 DVB-S cards, what should I replace them with?
Torgeir Veimo wrote: ... A full features card still uses much less CPU however, and can automatically reclock the output based on the timing of the input DVB stream. If you're not replacing any other component at this time I'd stick with FF cards, Thanks! No, I guess I would like to keep the hardware that survived as it is, so perhaps it would be best to replace my broken FF cards 1:1 by TT-premium S-2300s and my broken budget cards 1:1 by TT-budget S2-3200. Does anyone have actual experience with a TT-premium S-2300 and or a TT-budget S2-3200? Do both run smoothly now? Carsten. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
[vdr] Lightning destroyed my 4 DVB-S cards, what should I replace them with?
I had 1 FF and 2 budget cards in one PC, 1 FF card in the other. All 4 were destroyed by lightning this morning during a thunderstorm. What are the best cards to replace them with? In an earlier post, Klaus wrote that he is working on HDTV support and that he is using a TT-budget S2-3200. Would that be a good model to replace my 2 budget cards with? Does the driver work reliably now? Is there a supported FF HDTV card? If no, would the TT-premium S-2300 be the best choice? Should I still buy a FF card at all or does xine or softdevice work just as reliably by now? Thanks for any hints! :-) Carsten. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Lightning destroyed my 4 DVB-S cards, what should I replace them with?
On 25 May 2007, at 22:29, Carsten Koch wrote: Should I still buy a FF card at all or does xine or softdevice work just as reliably by now? Softdevice can give you really smooth fully interlaced SDTV output using a matrox G450 or G550 card, if your processor is fast enough. I'm using a pentium M at 1.733 MHz on an Aopen i915Ga-HFS and the processor runs at just below 40% CPU utilisation with passive cooling most of the time (the fan only starts when compiling etc). This setup might be sufficient for an HDTV setup in the future, by adding a PCIE gfx card, but it's hard to tell in advance. A full features card still uses much less CPU however, and can automatically reclock the output based on the timing of the input DVB stream. If you're not replacing any other component at this time I'd stick with FF cards, and then swap hardware when HDTV F solutions pop up in the future, or when the requirements are better know for proper 'soft' playback of HDTV content. -- Torgeir Veimo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
