[vdr] Re: Which analog card for analog-plugin

[Kai Steinbach <kai.steinbach@gmail.com>]

Hello

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:59:02 +0200 (CEST), Andreas Spengler wrote:
> Kai Steinbach said:
> > I went for the PVR250 and got it to work almost straight away. Hence I
> > totally recommend that. Again: YMMV
> 
> What means do you use for output?

My output is a Nexus DVB-S ff card.
Usually I don't watch the AnalogTV live picture ... analog recording
is done while any DVB-S channel is displayed on the TV out of the
Nexus. Watching the vdr recording later gives very good quality.
Watching *live* analogTV via Nexus TV out is jerky sometimes.

> I have the problem that the PVR250 is
> the only TV-card in my box, since I basically want to have a
> harddisk-recorder controlled via VDRadmin (no direct output). But I don't
> get the card to work with the analogTV plugin...

Not sure if vdr runs with no output at all ... 

If you don't have a DVB-x FF card then your options for output are
Dxr3, Pvr350 or softdevice. Softdevice uses the normal VGA out - which
should be available in all hardware configurations. The only other "no
direct output" mode I heard of is via "softdevice2net" - but for your
scenario the plain softdevice is more applicable.

Maybe you want to get the AnalogTV input working with a temporary FF
card first, and later move to a configuration with softdevice output ?
That way you can concentrate on one problem at a time.

Kai