Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2007-01-05 Thread Tony Houghton
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > On Thursday 04 January 2007 10:20, Laz wrote: > > > > Hmmm...I've got one of these and I've never seen it disconnect yet > > (a few months so far...fingers crossed!). > > > > When I've seen USB disconnections with two USB2 Nova-T devices, I was

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2007-01-04 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Thursday 04 January 2007 10:20, Laz wrote: > > Hmmm...I've got one of these and I've never seen it disconnect yet > (a few months so far...fingers crossed!). > > When I've seen USB disconnections with two USB2 Nova-T devices, I was > getting things like /dev/dvb/adapter0, /dev/dvb/adapter2, > /d

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2007-01-04 Thread Laz
On Thursday 04 January 2007 09:30, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > On 4 Jan 2007, at 09:20, Laz wrote: > > Hmmm...I've got one of these and I've never seen it disconnect yet > > (a few months so far...fingers crossed!). > > It looks like this (am not sure why it actually causes my machine to > crash, it mig

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2007-01-04 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 4 Jan 2007, at 09:20, Laz wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2007 21:44, Torgeir Veimo wrote: On 3 Jan 2007, at 20:45, Kartsa wrote: Now that this came up. I was wondering in my earlier post today about twin tuner cards and if I understood correctly Nova-T 500 is such a card. And if I again un

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2007-01-04 Thread Laz
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 21:44, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > On 3 Jan 2007, at 20:45, Kartsa wrote: > > Now that this came up. I was wondering in my earlier post today > > about twin tuner cards and if I understood correctly Nova-T 500 is > > such a card. And if I again understood correctly it works

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2007-01-03 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 3 Jan 2007, at 20:45, Kartsa wrote: Now that this came up. I was wondering in my earlier post today about twin tuner cards and if I understood correctly Nova-T 500 is such a card. And if I again understood correctly it works with linux and VDR? Some people including me are experienc

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2007-01-03 Thread Kartsa
Laz kirjoitti: Maybe this is down to a buggy USB chip on the motherboard or maybe I'm just unlucky and for some reason my two USB devices won't play happily together (on their own, they can work seamlessly for weeks!), or maybe it's down to a firmware bug or something. I also have a Nova-T 500

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2007-01-03 Thread Laz
On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:53, Richard Scobie wrote: > Timothy D. Lenz wrote: > > Too bad it only has 1 expansion slot. That means only 1 tunner board. > > I wouldn't even concider anything with less then 2-3 slots. > > It does have 4 x USB 2.0 which seems to be becoming popular for tuners > n

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2006-12-30 Thread Richard Scobie
Timothy D. Lenz wrote: Too bad it only has 1 expansion slot. That means only 1 tunner board. I wouldn't even concider anything with less then 2-3 slots. It does have 4 x USB 2.0 which seems to be becoming popular for tuners now. Regards, Richard

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2006-12-30 Thread Richard Scobie
Tony Houghton wrote: How good is Linux support for these? I was under the impression that XvMC doesn't work with ATI at all, and is broken in many versions of NVidia's Linux drivers. And that the latter don't support deinterlacing even though the hardware has been capable for quite a while now

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2006-12-30 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Too bad it only has 1 expansion slot. That means only 1 tunner board. I wouldn't even concider anything with less then 2-3 slots. - Original Message - From: "Richard Scobie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Klaus Schmidinger's VDR" Sent: Saturday, December

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2006-12-30 Thread Tony Houghton
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > ATIs and NVIDIAs latest > chipset can do adaptive deinterlacing (simple BOB or WEAVE doesn't > suffice), and has a much higher resolution available for HDTV > decoding and scaling when doing XvMC decoding. How good is Linux support for these? I

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2006-12-30 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 30 Dec 2006, at 08:36, Richard Scobie wrote: If someone is able to produce a Linux driver for the hardware decoder on this board, the latest VIA Epia EX looks like the vdr setup for the future. http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/11511 Hardware accelerated MPEG2, MPEG4 and WMV9, 720p an

[vdr] New VDR hardware

2006-12-30 Thread Richard Scobie
If someone is able to produce a Linux driver for the hardware decoder on this board, the latest VIA Epia EX looks like the vdr setup for the future. http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/11511 Hardware accelerated MPEG2, MPEG4 and WMV9, 720p and 1080i output via DVI, S-Video composite and compone