[vdr] Re: help adding another card

["Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M" <C.Rienecker@deutschepost.de>]

> 
> Sergei Haller wrote:
> ...
> > AFAIK, vdr assumes that all cards are able to receive FTA. 
> Maybe it is
> > easyer to say, that by default a card can't receive anything.
> 
> IMHO a full DVB-S card is a valuable and expensive resource,
> so the assumption that by default it cannot receive anything
> sounds to me like piling a second mistake upon the initial one.
> The initial mistake being that less than 50% of the expensive 
> card is put into productive use.
> 
> Quad LNBs cost much less than half a DVB-S card...

That's correct, but the thread started with a user that has a DVB-S because
he could not get a full featured DVB-T. He would need a little more to use
his DVB-S as a receiver.
 
> Having said that, of course it would still be nice if VDR
> would be a bit more modular and could use other output
> devices such as TV-out or a cheap MPEG decoder card, etc.
> rather than requiring an expensive DVB-S card for replay.
> 
> Carsten.
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