On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Simon Baxter wrote: > Hi. > > I'm using a Hauppauge Nova-T budget card under VDR. It works like a > charm - can record one and view multiple channels in the same > transponder at once. > > Is this also the case with FF cards? With their 'onboard' mp2 decoder, > do they also allow recording of multiple channels? FF cards can record multiple channels and view one. I have old fujitsu-siemens dvb-c FF card in slow P166 machine. I can record 3 channels and view one or view one recording at the same time. Viewing many channels at the same time is imho not possible with FF card, unless you re-encode the streams to fit in one stream. > How does this work? Are the mp2 decoder and 'tuner' separate on the > card, and can VDR dump some streams to disk as well as using the > decoder? Yes. Afaik. Marko
