[linux-dvb] Re: HDD-Limitations

[Marcus Kuba <marcus@kuba4u.de>]

Am 16.08.2001, schrieb Lars Bensmann <lars.bensmann@epost.de> ...

> How many cards do you plan to install? I don't know about CPU usage in
> this case, but I guess it is probably still no important factor. If you
> want to watch the recordings an the TV without using a DVB card a MPEG
> decoder card with TV out is probably the way to go, but I don't have

Since there are none of these cards supported by vdr, this is no option. 
And I think it also wouldn't make any difference to the DVB-S in CPU 
usage.
Software-Playback of course would mean a lot CPU usage.

> expercience with this. But the TV out of most graphic cards is not
> supported under Linux. There are some exceptions. Maybe someone else can
> comment on this.

AFAIK the TV-Out of all ATI-Cards needn't be supported since it is 
automatically active when you connect only a TV and no Monitor (and the 
Radeon-Chip still is the best buy if you want to decode DVDs, at least 
under Windows). I upgraded my VDR last weekend (mainboard with more 
PCI-slots, was necessary because I want to add such a CMI 8738 soundcard 
RSN) and it now has an ELSA Erazor III Pro with TNT2-Pro and lots of 
Video-Outs/Ins... surprisingly the TV-Out of this card is also 
automatically active when there is no Monitor connected, so I can now 
leave the Monitor out of the living-room.

> Considering what kinds of machines are running VDR (I think I remember
> someone with a Pentium 166?) I don't think you need so much horsepower.
> Any PC with components you can still buy is probably more than you need.

Yes.. but better hardware is always nice when it comes to compiling new 
kernels and stuff :-)

Greetings,  Marcus


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