You'll get pretty much the same quality video with any card. It depends on the quality of the stream being sent. All the budget cards use a lot of CPU time. If you want to use less, then get a card that has an mpeg codec chip on it. They cost about 200. Athlon 2000 has more than enough CPU power to view/record streams from even a budget card. I have viewed streams from two budget cards at one time on a Sempron 2400 albeit one of the video pictures was choppy. Just make sure it is supported at linuxtv.org. I am running Kubuntu Breezy and it detects both my cards (Technisat Skystar DVB-S and KWorld DVB-T) And I can use them in all the DVB supporting programs except Kaffeine, where the DVB icon remains dim and unusable. Good luck. William On Monday 09 January 2006 00:16, Cristo Saulo Bola?os Trujillo wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm thinking about buying a dvb-t card (Avermedia 771 PCI or Haupauge > Nova-T), mainly for recording programs from TV, right, the question is: > how good is the quality ? and resolution ? > > Does recording gather much cpu ? I'm running an Ahtlon 2000 XP+ with > Ubuntu. > > Thanks! > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
