On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:53:09AM +0300, Jan Ekholm wrote: > There seems to be two solutions that are currently used: > > Softdevice > http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Softdevice-plugin I think that http://softdevice.berlios.de/ is the official home page. > Xine-plugin > http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Xine-plugin > > Those seem to be the best homepages for the plugins, but as I'm no native > German speaker (I can order a beer, but that's about it) I have a fairly > hard time grokking the finer details of pros and cons. > > What do you others use when you want to get a good image from VDR? Which > of those plugins is the preferable solution in this case? The system in > use should cope just fine with some decoding done by the CPU. The system > has a Sempron-something 2400+ and an ATI fanless 9250 card (I think it > was). I'm using softdevice with a budget DVB-T card (Hauppauge Nova-T PCI 90002) on a Matrox G450 on DirectFB. For some reason, the Matrox TV-out connection eats more CPU than VGA. The 900 MHz Intel Celeron has enough power to deinterlace the picture. I think that something like 500 or 600 MHz would be the minimum requirement on a Matrox card. Other cards may require more processing power. I don't have any experience with the Xine-plugin, but softdevice has gotten much more stable during this year. Crashes occur very rarely nowadays, even if the signal is bad. Marko
