[vdr] Re: The perfect hardware?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Marcus Kuba wrote:
> 
> Stumbled over this when browsing the net...
> 
> Well... it's only a reference-board for developers.. but it might be the perfect base for a VDR box
> if the onbard-chips could be used: http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products/jasmine.htm
> 
> The mainboard incorporates the successor of the Decoder-chip from the 'Hollywood+'-cards and
> supports Playback of MPEG4(DivX), MPEG1/2, MPEG-1 layer I,II,II (MP3) and AC3/DTS over
> SPDIF. Since it's a sigma designs product I think one can assume perfect output-quality.
> 
> There is everything onboard except the DVB-card(s), so the standard 3 PCI-slots should be
> enough. Since the supported operating-system is LINUX, drivers are already available.
> So all we need is a VDR 1.0.0+ with an appropriate output-plugin :-)

Take a look at http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products/jasmine_features_specifications.htm
and you won't believe your eyes:


      Supported Operating Systems:

            Linux 


No Windows mentioned here :-)

Klaus
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