[vdr] Re: Searching help or documentation

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

VDR needs a full-featured DVB as primary card
as it doesn't have software decoding (maybe someone
is going to implement a framebuffer/OSS-plugin in the future).

So you aren't able to use VDR with a low-budget-card
(only for recording, but no watching or replaying)

Rene

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Philippi" <lists@torangan.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 5:00 PM
Subject: [vdr] Searching help or documentation


> Hi
>
> I'm trying to use DVB with linux for the first time and I'm facing a
couple
> of problems:
>
> I own a Hauppauge WinTV Nova DVB card which should be supported but
> unfortunately it's one without a composite video out. Getting the video to
> TV shouldn't be the problem once I've got it on my screen since I'm using
a
> Matrox Marvel G400 which has a very good TV out that should work from
linux
> too.
> Right now I don't know what tools to get the DVB on the screen but I guess
it
> should at least be possible to record a .mpg and decode it on the fly.
> Unfortunately I can't even start vdr or rather - it's a bad idea. Even
> compiled with REMOTE=KBD the first thing it does is trying to learn my
> remote control thereby freezing my computer...
>
> I think I've build the siemens-dvb correctly. The modules are loadable and
> vdr seems to recognize them. Strangely I had to tweak the Makefiles since
> the include path to ost was plainly wrong.
>
> Any help or pointers to a FAQ / HOWTO or other documentation would be
> welcome.
>
> Bye David
>
>
>