On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Simon Baxter wrote:
Hi.
I'm using a Hauppauge Nova-T budget card under VDR. It works like a charm - can record one and view multiple channels in the same transponder at once.
Is this also the case with FF cards? With their 'onboard' mp2 decoder, do they also allow recording of multiple channels?
FF cards can record multiple channels and view one. I have old fujitsu-siemens dvb-c FF card in slow P166 machine. I can record 3 channels and view one or view one recording at the same time.
Viewing many channels at the same time is imho not possible with FF card, unless you re-encode the streams to fit in one stream.
How does this work? Are the mp2 decoder and 'tuner' separate on the card, and can VDR dump some streams to disk as well as using the decoder?
Yes. Afaik.
Marko