> > I wouldn't touch any DVB card based on the BT878 with a 40 foot barge > > pole. See the linux-dvb archives for my reasons why. Both of these cards > > use that chip; in general, the cheaper cards use it. > > > > I'd be particularly concerned about using two of them in the same > > system. The problem is that they don't have enough on-board buffer space > > to cope with any other traffic on the PCI bus. > > > > For me, the Avermedia card plus the SATA controller on the same PCI bus > > was too much. Two of these cards may be too much for your system, > > especially if you have any other stuff on the bus. > > This begs the question of how many people are actually seeing a > problem as a > result of lack of buffer space on these cards, given the widespread > availability of cards based on this chipset. > > I've seen various references to TS vs PS mode, but not sure quite how this > all works as yet. Is the entire mux data stream read across the PCI bus in > the former case? If so, is this contributing to the problem? >
What cards would you recomend then. The easily available ones in the UK are BT878 based (Avermedia and Hauppauge). thanks.
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