[vdr] Re: bt848 frame grabber compatibility

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

Jeffrey Drake wrote:
> 
> I am now finding a lot of tv tuner cards that are supposed to work with
> bt848 chipset driver.
> 
> Can VDR be made to work with these type of cards? They will not likely
> have mpg2 encoding on them, so the issue here is can VDR do the encoding
> in mpg or mpg2 manually? (and could a Via C3 processor handle that in
> real time).

I guess the best thing to do here would be to write an API wrapper
that provides pretty much the same API functions as the current DVB
driver and does the MPEG2 encoding itself (provided the computer is
fast enough). That way such a card would look just like another DVB
card to VDR.

Klaus
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