[vdr] Re: Supported HDTV card for use in Europe?

[bernd_muc@gmx.de]

Hi Master One,

At 09:59 09.11.2004 +0100, Master One wrote:
> BTW Can someone explain again, how HDTV should be able with a normal 
> budget card (like the SkyStar2)? As I have seen so far, watching a HDTV 
> live-stream is impossible, so it is all about recording such a stream, and 
> then using a fitting player (like mplayer or VLC) to view it, right?
Right, without a projector you probably have no chance to really enjoy 
HDTV. There is no point in recording a HDTV program and then scale it down 
with mplayer to watch it on a regular TV set but for academic reasons. :-)

> But I never got that to work, is there anything special to do? I have VDR 
> 1.3.15 with the HDTV patch. And what exectly was the reason, why this is 
> not possible with a FF card?
AFAIK, the FF card (so far) cannot be stopped from creating a TV picture 
from the mpeg2 stream coming from the satellite tuner. So if a HDTV program 
is tuned in, the FF card has problems. As budget cards do not decode the 
mpeg2, they only write the stream to the disk.

Bernd