[linux-dvb] Re: Can a Hauppage DVB-S receive HDTV?

["Robert Schlabbach" <robert_s@gmx.net>]

From: "David Rincon" <drincon@mat.upc.es>
> I'd like to know if I could do the same with the DVB-S card. My
> objective is to tune Euro1080 (www.euro1080.tv) and play it with xine.
>
> Has anybody done it already? Do you know which problems I'll face with?
> I'd like to know it before I buy the card and the dish.

As long as it is a "budget" card, the hardware should be able to do it. I
am receiving the Euro1080 test broadcasts with the "Lorenzen DVB-S" card
(which, like the Hauppauge cards, is nothing but a relabeled TechnoTrend
budget card), and the card itself has no problems at all receiving the data
(why should it anyway...).

Top problem (at least on Windows) is: CPU power. It'll require at least a
2.4GHz CPU to decode the HDTV stream in real time, and higher is better.
Note that on Windows I got hardware accelerated MPEG-2 decoding (IDCT and
motion compensation on the GeForce 488 Go and the ATI Radeon 9700), so if
that is not utilized by your Linux driver/software, you'll need even faster
CPUs...

But, as far as the DVB-S receiver card is concerned, that should be ok.

Regards,
--
Robert Schlabbach
e-mail: robert_s@gmx.net
Berlin, Germany



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