Does anyone have one of these cards ? The online shop says delivery time is 1-3 business days so it seems they are actually available for purchase now. I'm thinking about getting one of these but was hoping that someone could answer a few questions about these cards:
- Can I use this card in my own vdr box (with code from the Reelbox vdr tree) or will it only work in a Reelbox ? - How mature is the software for these cards (stability/image quality/features) ?
Thank You, Jeremy
I have an ordered and paid this card 2 month ago, still waiting. So don't believe the online shop.
Because I don't have the card, i could just tell you what I read about it. There is a vdr-plugin to using the card. It should work on a "normal" vdr. The software is under development: Reel has a svn for it. It will not work out of the box, but I think it should be possible to build a stable vdr without a reel box.
Jeremy Jones schrieb:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:00:41PM +0200, Peter Evertz wrote:
I have an ordered and paid this card 2 month ago, still waiting. So don't believe the online shop.
The shop is bit too optimistic...
The production is currently ramping up, a few single cards are already sent to "integration" volunteers in the vdr forum. AFAIK the metal slot mounting is still missing.
On 10/17/07, Georg Acher acher@in.tum.de wrote:
Thanks for the information. So it sounds like this card should work in my box but I think I will wait until I can get some feedback from people who are actually using the card. I've been waiting for such a card for awhile and this is the only hardware based HD MPEG2/MPEG4 decoder card I've seen. I've never really been happy with the quality of software decoders or cards with MPEG offload (not full decode) so I hope this card lives up to my expectations :-)
Jeremy
I've never really been happy with the quality of software decoders or
cards
My biggest problems in the past have been A/V sync problems, "tearing" and slow channel change times. I've had similar problem with software based MPEG-2 decoders but after a lot of tweaking I was able to get nice image quality but still had occasional A/V sync problem and channel change times were still slow. I've never (or very rarely) had these problems with hardware based MPEG-2 decoders.
Jeremy
Hi,
Igor Nikanov schrieb:
See svn://reelbox.org/testing/src for the sources from Reel:
utils/hdshm is the hd-card driver vdr-1.4 is the reel-patched VDR vdr-plugins/reelbox is the hdcard-output-plugin vdr-plugins/erfplayer is a fileplayer-plugin for the hdcard vdr-plugin/filebrowser is a filebrowser-plugin to show/replay files on the hdcard
Reiner
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