[vdr] Re: vdr: Websites for Beginners??

["Gavin Hamill" <gdh@acentral.co.uk>]

> Thanks to all who have endeavoured to help with my enquiry.
>
> I suppose it seems fairly obvious now - you can't decode and watch
pictures
> without either the premium card or some other hardware mpeg decoding
> capability. I was under the misconception that the un-decoded stream could
> be piped to a software decoder - mplayer perhaps - to allow live or
playback
> viewing.

Well, the dxr3 plugin works well enough considering it's still alpha-quality
code, and Dxr3's can be picked up on eBay for about £25 at the moment...

I'm sure that the mplayer plugin which allows replay of .AVI, .MPEG, .ASF,
etc. through a DVB card will be extended to allow mplayer to act as the
playback for DVB MPEG2 data...

Of course, the quality will never be as good as a real MPEG2 hardware
decoder hooked straight to TV-out (interlaced MPEG2-> progressive for VGA ->
interlaced TV out of VGA card)

> All is not lost however. I've placed a special order with Hauppauge in
> London for a DVB-t fully-featured card.

Out of interest, what price did they quote inc. VAT + delivery?

Cheers,
Gavin.



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