On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 11:49 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2003 12:14 schrieb Anne Wilson: > That card is a digital TV card for terrestrial. Drivers can be > found on www.linuxtv.org. This card is not supported out of the box > and you can not use apps like xawtv or similar, as this is not a > normal tv-card. I don't know how far the support for dvbin in > mplayer is, i think that would be a good app to use this card, or > if you have a dxr3 you can use the great vdr. > > There are two different sorts of digital tv cards. On one side the > premium cards with an mpeg2-decoder onboard and as second the > budget cards w/o such a decoder. The first one does provide v4l > interface and a tv-out, vdr can be used out of the box with this. > The second one needs software to decode the mpeg2 stream and does > not provide a v4l interface. The dvbin patch for mplayer tries to > be able to tune this card and decode the mpeg2 stream. There are > other apps of course too. A problem may be to get a good > channels.conf for your area. dvb-s (sat) is very wide spreaded, but > dvb-t is in a lot areas very new. Further it depends on how many > stations can be received digital in your area. > > I hope this helps you a bit. > To make it short: with some efforts you will get great picture > quality.But the nova is completly different to normal analog cards. > Thanks, Steffen. This obvioiusly need some thought
Anne
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