[linux-dvb] Re: Siemens card

[Rami Räsänen <dvb@huume.org>]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Robert Schlabbach wrote:

> Except ECD (what is that?), yes. It is also the _only_ cable card which can
> be equipped with an analog TV module, in case you have both analog and
> digital TV in your cable.

ECD is European Common Decrypter, a CSA hardware descrambler, it is
available in AV7111.

One thing.. Does it support both QAM-64 and QAM-128 modulation? I think
they use them both here in Finland.

> My personal take: I would stay away from anything with an AV7111 on it!

Yep, but it is hard and CPU consuming to get a picture to TV without it.

> But then you'll need a
> software MPEG-2 decoder, and Linux-VDR may not work with budget-cards
> either...

That's not a problem, I'm not using VDR. Maybe I should buy a DVB-C budget
and use Nexus DVB-S for MPEG-2 decoding? Maybe that would consume some CPU
power too and increase instability too much. :(

-- 
Regards,
Rami



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