I'm looking at getting a Technotrend C-2300 card.
The card specs on dvbshop.net indicate:
Bu 1 Audio-In 3,5mm Jack-plug Bu 2 Composite-Video-In Cinch-female connector
Does this mean there's an MPEG2-encoder onboard as well? How do I use this? With v4l2/ivtv and pvrinput?
Thanks
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:53:06AM +0100, Simon Baxter wrote:
I'm looking at getting a Technotrend C-2300 card.
The card specs on dvbshop.net indicate:
Bu 1 Audio-In 3,5mm Jack-plug Bu 2 Composite-Video-In Cinch-female connector
Does this mean there's an MPEG2-encoder onboard as well? How do I use this? With v4l2/ivtv and pvrinput?
Thanks
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Yes it's a full featured card(lacking in some areas like rf-out though) with hw mpeg2 encoding. I'm also considering buying this card and any comments or experiences from users of this card are more than helpfull. Especially on picture quality of the composite-out and possibly rgb-out if someone's hacked it(alot harder than 2.1 cards I hear).
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Does this mean there's an MPEG2-encoder onboard as well? How do I use this? With v4l2/ivtv and pvrinput?
Yes it's a full featured card(lacking in some areas like rf-out though) with hw mpeg2 encoding. I'm also considering buying this card and any comments or experiences from users of this card are more than helpfull. Especially on picture quality of the composite-out and possibly rgb-out if someone's hacked it(alot harder than 2.1 cards I hear).
Sorry to be pedantic, but just to be clear.
You're saying in addition to it having an MPEG2 decoder, it also has an MPEG2 ENcoder for the composite video?
I've had one comment that the front-end inteface the card has is unsupported by a lot of software. I gather this means under Windows?? Surely VDR bypasses all this??
Re: the RGB - There's no J2 connector on the card and I doubt it's as easy as soldering one in (otherwide dvbshop would have done that!!)
Thanks
Simon
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 06:46:21PM +1200, Simon Baxter wrote:
Does this mean there's an MPEG2-encoder onboard as well? How do I use this? With v4l2/ivtv and pvrinput?
Yes it's a full featured card(lacking in some areas like rf-out though) with hw mpeg2 encoding. I'm also considering buying this card and any comments or experiences from users of this card are more than helpfull. Especially on picture quality of the composite-out and possibly rgb-out if someone's hacked it(alot harder than 2.1 cards I hear).
Sorry to be pedantic, but just to be clear.
You're saying in addition to it having an MPEG2 decoder, it also has an MPEG2 ENcoder for the composite video?
I meant an mpeg2 decoder =) sorry about that
I've had one comment that the front-end inteface the card has is unsupported by a lot of software. I gather this means under Windows?? Surely VDR bypasses all this??
Re: the RGB - There's no J2 connector on the card and I doubt it's as easy as soldering one in (otherwide dvbshop would have done that!!)
I've read on various sites that hacking rgb-output from this card requires removal of the chip itself, I can see this as a showstopper for dvbshop.de.
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