On 11/19/07 00:25, Jörg Knitter wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: >> I don't want to lose the ability to record 3 DVB-S transponders >> in parallel, and I also need the DVB-T card. >> >> > Have you ever thought about a USB solution? I also would prefer PCI, but > I also could not believe that a lot of boards have just 3 PCI slots - no > way using a separate sound card instead of on-board-sound or a PCI-WLAN > device (which is also supported better than the USB ones) if you want 3 > tuners without using a dual-tuner card. > And speaking of those HIFI-like cases: Most solutions I have seen just > support one PCI card using a riser card, so here USB is also the only > way to get more than two tuners into such a PC. I know that USB devices Most cases on http://www.caseking.de/shop/catalog/default.php?cPath=847_848_867 have seven slots. > use a little bit more CPU power, but in my tests one or two years ago, > it has not been too much (on Windows e.g. just around 5-10% more CPU > usage with a DVB-T-Stick compared to a DVB-T-PCI card; on today´s > systems, it might be even less). I can´t say if there are more > disadvantages using a USB solution instead of a PCI card (apart from > missing drivers etc.). > There is e.g. a USB-DVB-S-Box by Terratec, and if I remember right, the > Pinnacle USB-DVB-S2 box (which is a Technotrend production) is already > supported on linux. The thing is that I have several PIC cards that I want to continue to use. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
