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VDR needs a DVB tuner for receiving TV signal from satellite, cable or terrestrial transmitter. DVB-S card is for receiving digital signal from satellite, DVB-T is for receiving digital signal from terrestrial transmitter and DVB-C is for receiving digital signal from cable. VDR can use also analogue cards. It is also possible to receive signal with VDR server and stream it to client. |
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As Data sources for video and TV VDR can use: |
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* DVB cards, either DVB-T, DVB-C or DVB-S, each of them either as budget card without MPEG-Decoder or Fullfeatured DVB card with MPEG-Decoder (the latter therefore usually being [[output devices]] as well). |
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* analogue TV cards with MPEG encoder like Hauppauge PVR 250 or PVR 350, either PCI(preferred) or USB |
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* analogue TV cards without MPEG encoder with Brooktree BT848/878 |
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* the data stream of another VDR which works as a server |
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Revision as of 17:50, 2 April 2013
VDR needs a DVB tuner for receiving TV signal from satellite, cable or terrestrial transmitter. DVB-S card is for receiving digital signal from satellite, DVB-T is for receiving digital signal from terrestrial transmitter and DVB-C is for receiving digital signal from cable. VDR can use also analogue cards. It is also possible to receive signal with VDR server and stream it to client.
V4L-DVB Wiki has good list of DVB cards at http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Device_Information