[linux-dvb] Re: IP over DVB receiver cards for Linux

[Wolfgang Wershofen <wolfgang@wershofen.com>]

Dienstag, 17. September 2002 at 09:52 Felix Domke wrote:

> I'd buy a WinTV-nova (the cheap one), as it supports the delivery of the
> full TS, and thus it does not suffer from any bandwith-problems like the
> other cards (the pentamedia uses afaicr the GTX chipset, which has only a
> very slow interface to it's dram (<1.5MB/s, unless they did something
> magical). "Normal" WinTVs (with mpeg decoder) seem to have similar problems.

Do you really think, this is a problem? Normally, SAT-providers state
their bandwidth in kBit/s and not MByte/s. So I believe you won't hardly
be able to exploit the bandwidth within your card with IP-Networking.
The bottelneck of SAT-IP-Networking is the shared bandwidth on the
transponder and not the hardware on the DVB-card.

I have no personal experience with the full featured cards, but I know
people using T-DSL via Satellite from Deutsche Telekom with such cards
and they are getting equal transmission rates like I have with my budget
card.

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Best regards
Wolfgang Wershofen                            mailto:wolfgang@wershofen.com



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