[linux-dvb] Re: DVB Newbie

[michal <michal@etc.cz>]

I have bought dxr3 a few days ago, because software MPEG2 decoding eats 
too much CPU of my PIII 500. I used Xine before, and I must say, picture 
quality was excellent. I want to watch TV on my monitor and with dxr3 I 
have 2 possibilities:

1) Use VGA overlay - it is very unstable under linux and all picture 
(nonvideo) is a little bit degraded.
2) Connect svideo-out on dxr3 to svideo-in on my Ati-All-In-Wonder and 
watch with avview or xawtv - picture quality is degraded.

If you wanna watch video on you monitor, have budget card and have fast 
CPU, then use Xine :) It is much better than mplayer. Xine supports 
channel switching with OSD (but doesn't support more DVB cards :() and 
plays MPEG on slow CPU more smoothly than mplayer. Btw. mplayer still 
dosn't support TS on input.

If your video is choppy, then MPEG is probably interlaced. Choose 
deinterlace method in setup window and then activate deinterlacing by 
pressing "i".

If you are going to buy dxr3, then remember problems with watching video 
on monitor.

Michal


--[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
> What would be the best card for DVR then? Can you still get DXVR3 cards
> new?
>
> On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 21:47, Gavin Hamill wrote:
>
> > On Friday 06 June 2003 23:13, you wrote:
> >
> > > When I open up in Xine it is all choppy and blocky ... Could it be the
> > > MPEG2 library that I have installed? I think I shall go and by a
> > I don't really understand what's happening to be honest. :( I doubt it's any 
> > MPEG library because all 'dvbstream' is doing is taking the MPEG2 data coming 
> > out of the card, filtering out a couple of PIDs and saving it to disk - no 
> > software decode going on....
> >
> > Xine is a program I've never used to be honest :/
> >
> > Does anyone else have any ideas?
> >
> >
> > > Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 card tomorrow so I have hardware encoding then.
> > <blink>
> >
> > It'd be nice to have such disposable income :)
> >
> > That card isn't really going to help you with VDR unless you want to hook up 
> > an analogue input like a Sky Digibox or camcorder...
> >
> > gdh



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