[vdr] Re: Nova-t UK

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Mit, 2003-05-14 um 01.13 schrieb Gregor Lawatscheck:
> At 23:52 13/05/2003, you wrote:
> >Can VDR be used with a nova-t without dxr-3 card?
> >
> >if so please let me know how, as I currently just get a blank console
> >screen (I assume it's trying to output to a tv, without the hardware to
> >do so?).
> 
> Yes, a dxr-3, or a full featured Siemens / TechnoTrend card is required to 
> output to TV. I believe there are some experimental projetcts trying to use 
> CPU power and the TV-out of a graphics card to achieve something similar 
> but with dxr-3s going at around 10 pounds on ebay there's not that much of 
> a point I guess.

But overlay with DXR3 is awful and you lose a PCI-slot.
Only with a TV it's OK.

> 
> >if not can anyone give me clear instructions of how a nova-t can be used
> >under linux? I've been trying this for ages and it's starting to make me
> >crazy :o(
> 

MPlayerCVS and Xine have initial DVB-support. But I don't know if they
can handle DVB-C/T.

Rene



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