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#REDIRECT [[Hardware or software decoder?]] |
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"Full-featured Card" is an [[Wikipedia:Euphemism|Euphemism]] that describes the early [[Siemens]], [[Hauppauge]] and [[Technotrend]] DVB-Cards with onboard [[AV711x]] chip used as [[MPEG2 Decoder]]. From a today's point of view they are just outdated and forcing people to blow their money for a hardware decoder they really don't need (every recent PC with more than ~500MHz is able to decode MPEG2 Streams in software without any extra cost). |
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No modern card design repeated this approach, Microsoft even denies to support this type of cards in their [[BDA]] Driver Architecture. |
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For a long time the [[VDR]] Project unfortunately forced it's users to install at least one of these expensive cards in their system. Today it is however highly recommended to install the [[VDR Software Decoder Plugin]] instead and let the "Full-featured Cards" die better sooner than later. You can spend your money a better way, invite your girlfriend for a ice-cream or drink some beer with your friends. |
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Latest revision as of 05:41, 27 December 2016
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