[linux-dvb] Hauppauge Nova-T 500 (Diversity)

[Soeren Moch]

Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> Is the diversity feature (using two tuners to get better reception than
> one) a hardware feature, or is it simply a software feature?

I guess it is a hardware feature, because - as I understand it - you
have to combine the received data before viterbi and reed-solomon 
decoding. 

> I assume one could get a similar software only feature by using some
> clever software tricks by combining the dvb data and ecc streams?

It might be difficult to get access to the raw undecoded tuner data 
stream. 

S:oren