Re: PCI/e with dual DVB-T + AV-in?

[Steven Toth <stoth@kernellabs.com>]

On 9/8/09 4:04 PM, Jed wrote:
>
>>>>>> Hi Ya'll,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Going on response levels thus far I'm not expecting much :-D but I
>>>>>> was
>>>>>> wondering if someone could possibly help me out here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there anything with half-decent driver support that is PCI/e,
>>>>>> and has
>>>>>> dual DVB-T + A/V-in?*
>>>>>> As a bonus it would be dual Hybrid and have hardware encode, but I
>>>>>> wouldn't expect either to work at this stage.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm still trawling through mail-lists & wiki's etc, so I may yet
>>>>>> find the
>>>>>> best solution, but I was hoping some might already know.
>>>>>> Any advice or even just a response to chastise me is greatly
>>>>>> appreciated!
>>>>>> :-D
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Jed
>>>>>> *Is HVR-2200 the only option?
>>>>>> I wish there was something with better AV-in but it might end-up
>>>>>> being my
>>>>>> final choice.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Jed wrote:
>>>>> I've stopped looking for an alternative card, going to have a crack at
>>>>> getting my 7162-based device working.
>>>>> Still, any suggestions in the meantime are most welcome! I've also
>>>>> decided
>>>>> AV-in isn't that important...
>>>>> So just a known, nicely working PCI/e + dual DVB-T card, having the
>>>>> other
>>>>> features is nice but they needn't be working yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wish me luck! :-D
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HVR2200 is in well supported now for digital-only. It is a dual tuner
>>>> board using a PCI-E interface. It has A/V capabilities that are not
>>>> *yet* supported in Linux. Don't know when A/V will be supported, but
>>>> it will probably happen, eventually.
>>>>
>>>> It is a dual hybrid, and it does do hardware encode. (although not
>>>> yet in Linux) This probably is the device for you.
>>>>
>>>> To follow the development more closely, see the blog on kernellabs.com
>>>> I hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Mike
>>
>> Hi saa7164 devs, once(if) the software support is in place for A/V-in...
>> Do you know if it'd be possible to bypass hw encode and dump
>> uncompressed HD/SD with this card?
>> Or is it limited hardware-wise to even do this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jed
> Hi, could I possibly get a response to this please?

No idea, I have yet to look into this. All things considered I doubt it's worth 
spending time on raw analog when the goal for most people is to have the 
mpeg2/4/wmv hardware encoder working.

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