[vdr] Re: Amount of cards???

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Dylan D'silva schrieb:
> Hello all im very interested in building a vdr box, My plan was to use a
> Nova-T without mpeg decoding card and a dxr3 card with plugin .
> My question is how many card would i need in theory, to be able to record a
> show while watching another, And be able to use timeshift features etc ??
>
> I noticed it says in some of the new features that
>   a.. Instant Time Shift
>   b.. Additional remote control keys
>   c.. Macros can be assigned to remote control keys
>   d.. Multiple recordings on the same device
>   e.. Simultaneous recording and replay on the primary device
>
>   Any help would be great.
A card can receive a complete transport stream which contains several 
tv-/radio-channels. A TS is transmitted either by a transponder (DVB-S) 
or a UHF/VHF-channel (DVB-C/T). So you can receive all 
tv-/radio-channels in a TS at the same time.

You don't need a card for each tv-/radio-channel, but for each transport 
stream. If e.g. you want to receive 5 tv-channels on the same same TS 
you need only one card. If each channel is on another TS, you need 5 cards.

As DVB-card and DXR3 are two separated devices, they run in 
transfer-mode. So timeshift is possible, of course.

Rene



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