[vdr] Re: What do you actually need for watching?

[Rev Simon Rumble <simon@rumble.net>]

On Thu 21 Nov, Thomas Keil bloviated thus:

> But what DVB-Cards?
> 
> Is a "small" (ie not fully featured) DVB-card sufficient if he only
> wants to watch with something like tuxview, or do you absolutely
> need a fully featured card? 

At the moment you need some sort of MPEG decoder card and a DVB card.
The "standard" is to have a full-featured (read: expensive) DVB card
which includes an MPEG decoder.  However a plugin is being developed
to use the much cheaper dxr3-based MPEG decoder cards and low-end
(i.e., no MPEG decoder) DVB cards.  The dxr3 plugin is apparently
usable right now, though I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.

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