I had 1 FF and 2 budget cards in one PC, 1 FF card in the other. All 4 were destroyed by lightning this morning during a thunderstorm.
What are the best cards to replace them with?
In an earlier post, Klaus wrote that he is working on HDTV support and that he is using a TT-budget S2-3200. Would that be a good model to replace my 2 budget cards with? Does the driver work reliably now?
Is there a supported FF HDTV card? If no, would the TT-premium S-2300 be the best choice? Should I still buy a FF card at all or does xine or softdevice work just as reliably by now?
Thanks for any hints! :-) Carsten.
Depends on what your needs are. Aside of that though, OUCH! I would be pissed if lightening took out my dvb card!
Sorry to hear your bad luck!
On 25 May 2007, at 22:29, Carsten Koch wrote:
Should I still buy a FF card at all or does xine or softdevice work just as reliably by now?
Softdevice can give you really smooth fully interlaced SDTV output using a matrox G450 or G550 card, if your processor is fast enough. I'm using a pentium M at 1.733 MHz on an Aopen i915Ga-HFS and the processor runs at just below 40% CPU utilisation with passive cooling most of the time (the fan only starts when compiling etc). This setup might be sufficient for an HDTV setup in the future, by adding a PCIE gfx card, but it's hard to tell in advance.
A full features card still uses much less CPU however, and can automatically reclock the output based on the timing of the input DVB stream. If you're not replacing any other component at this time I'd stick with FF cards, and then swap hardware when HDTV F solutions pop up in the future, or when the requirements are better know for proper 'soft' playback of HDTV content.
Torgeir Veimo wrote: ...
A full features card still uses much less CPU however, and can automatically reclock the output based on the timing of the input DVB stream. If you're not replacing any other component at this time I'd stick with FF cards,
Thanks!
No, I guess I would like to keep the hardware that survived as it is, so perhaps it would be best to replace my broken FF cards 1:1 by TT-premium S-2300s and my broken budget cards 1:1 by TT-budget S2-3200.
Does anyone have actual experience with a TT-premium S-2300 and or a TT-budget S2-3200? Do both run smoothly now?
Carsten.
Carsten Koch schrieb:
Torgeir Veimo wrote: ...
A full features card still uses much less CPU however, and can automatically reclock the output based on the timing of the input DVB stream. If you're not replacing any other component at this time I'd stick with FF cards,
Thanks!
No, I guess I would like to keep the hardware that survived as it is, so perhaps it would be best to replace my broken FF cards 1:1 by TT-premium S-2300s and my broken budget cards 1:1 by TT-budget S2-3200.
Does anyone have actual experience with a TT-premium S-2300 and or a TT-budget S2-3200? Do both run smoothly now?
I have a S-2300 Premium card which is actually a 2.3 TT Premium, which has not much difference to the other FFs . AFAIR even some flaws like the to small LNBP have been removed on this card.
Kind Regards
Steffen
Carsten Koch wrote:
Should I still buy a FF card at all or does xine or softdevice work just as reliably by now?
I don't have a FF card but using a dxr3 in my 2nd vdr box so I have some experience about HW decoded vdr -- but
If you have a flat panel TV with HDMI/DVI input, I believe all the softdevices around will provide a high quality scaled and deinterlaced progressive output via graphics card DVI output. Sound cards with SPDIF or optical Toslink will give high quality audio if you have an AV receiver.
I'm using myself xinelibout in daemon mode "24/7" and use vdr-sxfe (fired from Matchbox desktop that is controlled by Lirc) to connect to VDR to provide 50Hz 720p full-screen video. MPEG Decoding (Xv) is suspended by a plugin after a timeout.
Cheers, Seppo
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