On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 20:05 -0400, Michael Krufky wrote: > Jate wrote: > > I am thinking about buying a DVICO FusionHDTV5 Lite. I read that DVICO > > recommends a video card with MPEG2 decoding acceleration to provide hardware > > assistance with the HDTV stream decoding. > > Just curious, why the Lite model and not the Gold? I recommend the Gold > model over the Lite model, any day. > > > I have also read that Linux video card drivers do not necessarily have > > support for this hardware assistance. I have also read that binaries from > > NVidia may have this support. I want to know if I would need to upgrade to a > > brawnier processor in order to get this working. > > The Gold model is less CPU-intensive than the Lite model. The Lite > model does NOT have the mpeg decoder that you are speaking of on-board, > but the Gold model does. Actually, DViCO recommends ATI video boards > for the DxVA acceleration... I like to stay away from NVidia, but that > is just me... Be my guest and taint your kernel with proprietary > binaries ;-) > > > If you are a FusionHDTV5 Linux pioneer, can you tell me your performance > > experience? > > I have tried all three of these models (below) with my Pention 4 3.06 > GHz HT processor... I have some slower machines here, but I havent > bothered sticking any of these cards in there yet. They all perform > very well in my machine under both Linux AND Windows, except that Linux > DVB support for the Lite board isnt yet complete. Mac Michaels, the > author of the frontend driver for all of these boards, has a slightly > slower machine, and he has mentioned that his machine chokes a bit on > the 1080i HDTV streams. I, on the other hand, can still compile a > kernel in less than ten minutes while watching HBO in Hi-Def on the same > machine without a hitch. > > FusionHDTV 5 LITE: I am currently working on the driver for this card. > I have completed analog video support, and it is flawless. The > (analog) driver for this board can be found in video4linux cvs, and > probably will not hit the stable linux kernel until 2.6.14 (we missed > the 2.6.13 deadline for this one). DVB support for FusionHDTV5 Lite is > a work-in-progress. It is coming along, although I wouldn't expect full > support right away. > > FusionHDTV5 GOLD: I was able to sneak analog support for this board > into 2.6.13, but DVB support requires the newer version of the analog > driver, found in video4linux cvs. Yes, I *did* say that DVB support > requires an analog update, not a DVB update. I'd rather not explain > this now -- it's a long story. Mac Michaels wrote the driver for the > LGDT3303 frontend (used in all of these boards), and that driver will be > included in 2.6.13, but disabled for FusionHDTV5 Gold. > > FusionHDTV 3 Gold-T: If you want a board that works in linux NOW (as of > 2.6.13) then THIS is the board that you want to buy. Full analog AND > dvb support have been implemented, and this code is already present in > Linus' 2.6.13 stable tree. > > ---The three boards in my posession are the ones above this line. > > FusionHDTV 3 Gold-Q: Same story as the Gold-T ... Mac has this board. > This is a slightly older model... You can probably get this for cheaper > than the Gold-T model, and they're pretty much the same thing, although > this one is harder to find nowadays. These seems to be the atsc cards. Do you happen to know anything about the support for the FusionHDTV DVB-T cards? In particular the corresponding Lite version? With regards Sigmund Augdal > > If you end up getting the FusionHDTV Lite anyway, then just cross your > fingers and hope that I figure out this IRQ problem mentioned in an > email I wrote last night. Regardless, it would be nice to have someone > else to test my work on the dvb-bt8xx driver (for FusionHDTV5 Lite) > besides just me alone. I hope this information is what you were looking > for... If you have any other questions, please ask. >
