On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:53:09AM +0300, Jan Ekholm wrote:
There seems to be two solutions that are currently used:
Softdevice http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Softdevice-plugin
I think that http://softdevice.berlios.de/ is the official home page.
Xine-plugin http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Xine-pluginThose seem to be the best homepages for the plugins, but as I'm no native German speaker (I can order a beer, but that's about it) I have a fairly hard time grokking the finer details of pros and cons.
What do you others use when you want to get a good image from VDR? Which of those plugins is the preferable solution in this case? The system in use should cope just fine with some decoding done by the CPU. The system has a Sempron-something 2400+ and an ATI fanless 9250 card (I think it was).
I'm using softdevice with a budget DVB-T card (Hauppauge Nova-T PCI 90002) on a Matrox G450 on DirectFB. For some reason, the Matrox TV-out connection eats more CPU than VGA. The 900 MHz Intel Celeron has enough power to deinterlace the picture. I think that something like 500 or 600 MHz would be the minimum requirement on a Matrox card. Other cards may require more processing power.
I don't have any experience with the Xine-plugin, but softdevice has gotten much more stable during this year. Crashes occur very rarely nowadays, even if the signal is bad.
Marko