Gavin Hamill wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 01:18:09PM +0100, Tomas Prybil wrote: > >>Happy Easter to all of You vdr listers! >> >>I'm looking for some recorded HDTV material to start the exploration of >>HDTV. I currently doesn't own a budget card and as I understand from >>reading not able to record the available streams. > > > Hm, my own understanding of it was that you can certainly record HDTV > streams from a FF card - after all it's just data at a high bitrate - > but to actually replay, you will need a software decoder like vdr-xine > or softdevice, because the FF cards are simply incapable of displaying > HDTV resolutions / decoding MPEG2 that fast. FF card doesn't have enough bandwidth for the HDTV, unless modded: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_TT_Budget_Patch However, IIRC at least HD-1 is starting MPEG4 HDTV transmissions this summer which probably require much lesser bandwidth. -- Anssi Hannula
