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"Full-featured Card" Euphemism that describes the early [[Siemens]], [[Hauppauge]] and [[Technotrend]] DVB-Cards with onboard [[AV711x]] 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 From a today's point of view they are just outdated and forcing people to blow their money for a hardware decoder they don't need (every recent PC with more than ~500MHz is able to decode MPEG2 Streams in software without any extra cost). |
"Full-featured Card" is an 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 From a today's point of view they are just outdated and forcing people to blow their money for a hardware decoder they really don't need (every recent PC with more than ~500MHz is able to decode MPEG2 Streams in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. |
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 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 wirh your friends. |
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Revision as of 21:42, 23 September 2004
"Full-featured Card" is an 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 From a today's point of view they are just outdated and forcing people to blow their money for a hardware decoder they really don't need (every recent PC with more than ~500MHz is able to decode MPEG2 Streams in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).
No modern card design repeated this approach, Microsoft even denies to support this type of cards in their BDA Driver Architecture.
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 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 wirh your friends.