Hi,
I've been using VDR with a Hauppauge Nova-T and a DXR3 for a couple of years now and I have just moved into a house with a satellite dish installed. Can anyone recommend a DVB-S card to use?
I've been looking at the Nexus-S because it is fully featured and I don't have any spare PCI slots left. With a FF card I could remove the DXR3. Are there any other FF DVB-S cards out there that would be good to buy?
Thanks in advance,
Glyn
Glyn Edwards wrote: ...
I've been looking at the Nexus-S because it is fully featured and I don't have any spare PCI slots left. With a FF card I could remove the DXR3.
If your VDR PC works fine with the DXR3, I would not recommend a fully featured DVB-S card. It is more expensive than a budget card and its firmware is still not mature. See the long thread about "FF card A/V sync" in this mailing list. It also crashes if you tune into HDTV channels.
Carsten.
Glyn Edwards wrote:
I've been looking at the Nexus-S because it is fully featured and I don't have any spare PCI slots left. With a FF card I could remove the DXR3.
All FF cards are basically cards made by Technotrend, and in my opinion it doesn't make any difference whether the card has a Hauppauge sticker on it or not. More important is the card revision number (1.3, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3), as this describes the card's hardware and extension possibilities more closely.
For details: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_full-featured-Karten http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_devices_DVB-S
Carsten Koch wrote:
If your VDR PC works fine with the DXR3, I would not recommend a fully featured DVB-S card. It is more expensive than a budget card and its firmware is still not mature. See the long thread about "FF card A/V sync" in this mailing list.
I do read a lot more about issues with DXR3 cards than with FF cards though. For me there is not a single sync issue for any of the German TV stations. The only issue I know is simultaneous recording and transfer-mode playback of high bandwidth channels (ARD), and this usually mostly hits people with just one sat card. Beside that, FF cards have been highly stable for me for years.
It also crashes if you tune into HDTV channels.
... which are especially useful for either FF cards or DXR3 cards. ;) Plus, there are no FF cards that are capable of receiving the real DVB-S2 HDTV channels, only the few mpeg2-HDTV channels may cause trouble, and these will die over time anyway.
Cheers,
Udo
For details: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_full-featured-Karten
Thanks for the link but unfortunately my German is 'nicht so gut'. I've been looking at some budget DVB-S cards and they seem reasonably cheap now. I'll just have to take the sound card out to make room for another PCI card.
Does anyone have a winTV-HVR-3000 or 4000? I'm slowly going to upgrade my VDR box so I might as well get as much future proofing as possible into it and the new box will eventually be powerful enough to not need the dxr3.
Best regards,
Glyn
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