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

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au>]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 18:13 +0100, Kai Steinbach wrote:
> 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.

Just a quick question: has someone got vdr output working via the
pvr350?

>  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
> 
>