[mythtv-users] DVB card for Australia (melbourne)

Phill Edwards philledwards at gmail.com
Sat Apr 16 03:27:14 UTC 2005


> I've said this a few times on this list already. The BT878 as used in
> the Avermedia cards, FusionHDTV Lite, VisionPlus and some others has a
> very small buffer which can't tolerate much delay on the PCI bus. Each
> other active device on your PCI bus increases the risk of buffer
> overflows.
> 
> The solution is to get a card based on any other chipset.
> The cx23883 cards work great for me; they are the FusionHDTV Plus, or
> the KWorld VStream Xpert, or the latest Nova-T. Earlier Nova-Ts and the
> DPANDA.com.au card have an SAA7146, which also works great.

Is this the the KWorld Vstream Xpert you refer to -
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3762&item=5186211671&rd=1

It doesn't state KWorld nor what chipset it uses so I want to make
sure before I buy it.

Regards,
Phill


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