On 10/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Hodge</b> <<a href="mailto:stevehodge@gmail.com">stevehodge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q">On 10/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Williams</b> <<a href="mailto:daniel.williams@orcon.net.nz" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">daniel.williams@orcon.net.nz
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>> General Comments:<br> >> Card co-exists fine with a Skystar 2, and a SAA7134 based card<br>(software<br> >> capture).<br> >> Having the system capture 4 channels at once (2 HW mpeg, 2 Software
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>> Mpeg4) leaves about 15% CPU idle on an AMD Sempron 3300+.<br> >><br> >Hmmm. So the Analogue side of the HVR4000 doesn't have an MPEG-2 encoder<br> >then?<br><br>Not that I know of (or at least not that seems to work/supported by the
<br>linux drivers). The HVR4000 isn't exactly that well documented as to<br>what works / howtos for linux.<br><br> >Damn.. That is a real pain. If we are going to deal with HD H264 720p<br> >playback of DTT we need a HW analogue card for Sky/UHF or there isn't
<br> >much grunt left.<br><br>As far as I know, there is only 1 MPEG encoder on the card, which is<br>shared between either DVB-S or DVB-T.</blockquote></div><br></span>DVB does not require an MPEG encoder - the signal is already an MPEG stream when the card receives it. So if there is an MPEG encoder on the card it's for analogue.
<br></blockquote></div><br>According to <a href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_cx8800">http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_cx8800</a>, cx8800 based cards do have hardware encoding but it sounds like it's difficult to get it working. From what I can tell you need to use the cx88_blackbird drivers to get hardware encoding.
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br>