CR wrote: > > My understanding was that with DVB-T/DVB-S the video stream is sent as > MPEG2 and the DVB card simply decodes it. No, it's a so called 'budget card' which does no decoding. The MPEG2 stream is directly delivered to the driver and the applications. > So, what is the bt878 used for? The PCI interface? Exactly - just as a PCI DMA controller. But some cards make the video capture facility of the Bt878 available i.e. by having an additional [s-]video-in connector. Ciao, ET. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
