[linux-dvb] Re: Australia

[Gregor Lawatscheck <gpel@mpex.net>]

> > Anyone else got any advice , I've been waiting over 2 years to build
> > a VDR box here in Aussie :).
>
> Does VDR require a "full-featured" card, specifically with a TI AV7110
> set-top-box decoder on it? If so, this card will not work for you as it is
> a "budget" class card, i.e. it only has a receiver frontend and a capture
> chip to transport the "raw" MPEG-2 transport stream into system memory.
True, vdr needs some decoder / TV out to display the OSD. A dxr3 would do 
for decoding - they're on ebay for around 40 EUR these days.

dxr3 info:
http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/

dxr3 vdr plugin:
http://www.schluenss.de/DXR3.html

Other than that you could use a full featured DVB-s / DVB-c with an av711x 
without a signal to it and feed data in vdr's transfer-mode. There's 
currently work going on to fix problems with decoding on a signal-less 
card. At least the DVB-s Nexus rev 2.1 appears stable without a signal and 
current drivers. 


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