I note that Hauppauge no longer list the Nexus DVB-S FF card and was wondering if anyone has succeeded in using the PVR 350, which has a hardware MPEG2 decoder and OSD, in conjuction with a budget DVB-S card.
What I am looking for is the full functionality of VDR, for display on a television set via the video output on the PVR 350 - no VGA card outputs.
If this is not yet possible, which pieces of the puzzle are still missing?
Regards,
Richard
On 20 Oct 2006, at 03:14, Richard Scobie wrote:
that Hauppauge no longer list the Nexus DVB-S FF card and was wondering if anyone has succeeded in using the PVR 350, which has a hardware MPEG2 decoder and OSD, in conjuction with a budget DVB-S card.
What I am looking for is the full functionality of VDR, for display on a television set via the video output on the PVR 350 - no VGA card outputs.
If this is not yet possible, which pieces of the puzzle are still missing?
You might still use a VGA card and get very good TV signal output. The matrox cards can do interlaced output with perfect field alignment. There might be some lip sync issues though, but the softdevice plugin gets better every day.
Matrox cards can do composite and s-vga (and scart rgb with an adapter) output.
In E1696631-2B3F-4259-9DE3-620A1B093CC3@pobox.com, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
You might still use a VGA card and get very good TV signal output. The matrox cards can do interlaced output with perfect field alignment. There might be some lip sync issues though, but the softdevice plugin gets better every day.
My experience with softdevice is that even recently its A/V sync is quite poor. Xine is very good at syncing, but there's more lag when changing channels etc due to buffering. I'm now using df_xine with a Matrox G450.
Matrox cards can do composite and s-vga (and scart rgb with an adapter) output.
You need an adaptor for S-Video and composite too, but you can buy one ready made from Matrox. It's not outrageously expensive, worth the money IMO to avoid some very fiddly soldering. Unfortunately they don't seem to sell one for RGB
Tony Houghton wrote:
In E1696631-2B3F-4259-9DE3-620A1B093CC3@pobox.com, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
You might still use a VGA card and get very good TV signal output. The matrox cards can do interlaced output with perfect field alignment. There might be some lip sync issues though, but the softdevice plugin gets better every day.
My experience with softdevice is that even recently its A/V sync is quite poor. Xine is very good at syncing, but there's more lag when changing channels etc due to buffering. I'm now using df_xine with a Matrox G450.
Matrox cards can do composite and s-vga (and scart rgb with an adapter) output.
You need an adaptor for S-Video and composite too, but you can buy one ready made from Matrox. It's not outrageously expensive, worth the money IMO to avoid some very fiddly soldering. Unfortunately they don't seem to sell one for RGB
Thanks both, for the suggestion.
I'd prefer to use the PVR 350 due to the low host CPU requirement and it seems like a natural replacement for the FF cards - IR, MPEG decoder and OSD all in hardware and at a reasonable price.
Regards,
Richard
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