[vdr] Re: Question about recording

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan D" <maxattack@optushome.com.au>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 7:56 AM
Subject: [vdr] Question about recording


> Hello All
>
> Im gonna build a vdr system my question is.
>
> The cards im interested in "The DTV-A1 receives an MPEG-2 compliant
> Transport Stream and delivers it to the PC via the PCMCIA interface.
> Software drivers are provided to enable PID and section filtering."
>
> My question is i want the ability to watch a show and record it at the
> same time. Over here we are dvt-t . (Australia) . Do i need 2 cards to
> do this and can they be this one ?. OR  do i need a card with built in
> mpeg decoder ?. I thought the same type would be fine as one will only
> be used for recording ? but not sure.. I was told U needed two cards for
> this or is 2 card to record one show WHILE watching another
> ??
>

This card is not supported by the Convergence drivers, so it won't work with
VDR
(or you have to write your own plugin interfacing between the driver of the
DTV-A1 and VDR).

When you get the TS you can filter all A/V/data-PIDs as you like. But VDR
needs
a hardware-decoder for MPEG (or you have to write your own software-decoding
output-plugin interfacing between VDR and XFree/Framebuffer/OSS/ALSA).

Rene