> don't know about the hvr-4000 > i have a tt s2-3200 it's cheap and works well, i don't use the CI > though, so i can't tell if it's well supported by the driver > (multiproto) but besides the CI part i couldn't tell you what's not > properly working with this card at the moment.. > > you'll get some good info on linuxtv wiki : > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_PCI_Cards > > > But if you're going for Sat HD (1080i h264) on linux 64bit, i don't > think the dvb device will be the problem as long as it has a working > driver. Yes, I also think the card with best driver support base is THE THING here. It seems that for many cards the official DVB drivers and apps are now in a little flux state with multiple each other incompatible kernel driver and userspace app interfaces. I hope some resolution is achieved and branches are starting to find back to DVB tree. But nice to hear that all 3 of these cards have changes to work both with S and S2. >> What card you would recommend for the Linux usage and for which one >> the drivers are working best? (running on AMD x86-64 with 4850e cpu) >> And is there any differences in the tuner quality of these cards? >> > With 1080i H264 that you'll get on DVB-T or DVB-S2 (in europe) the > main problem will be to properly decode it. It would be interesting to find some dvb-t usb gadget for playing with it and laptop while sitting on the city cafe. > > Problems will come either from the stream specifications, unsuported > in ffh264, that will produce a jerky decoding or from the lack of CPU > of your system.. > Although it seems that latest ffh264 version do use multithreading on > those 1080i streams, tested myself on ANIXEHD/ ASTRA PROMO HD streams, > ffh264 is not a multithreaded decoder to begin with so in the worst > case senario it'll use one single core of your CPU for decoding and > then you can get in serious troubles.. Yeah, the 780G chipset I have has something called UVD 2.0 integrated to motherboard that should provide hardware acceleration for decoding VC-1, H.264 (AVC), WMV, and MPEG-2 sources up to 1080p resolutions. But I pet no-one has data available for getting the Linux encoding/decoding libraries to support those features. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
