[mythtv-users] DVB-S: Hauppauge nexus-s versus Twinhan/Skystarcards

[Johan Reinalda]

Allan,
thanks for the feedback. I had not carefully looked at the nexus-s hardware, 
and now see indeed the mpeg2 decoder; as I play via an fx5200 card, I won't 
need this and anyway, it doesn't look like it's supported as a fb-device 
like the pvr-350.

When you say 'second-hand dvb-s card (Budget card) ', do you mean the 
Skystar type cards?
What about the new Twinhan 102G, is that supported by the DST drivers?

Thanks a bunch!

Johan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allan Stirling" <Dibblahmythml0015 at pendor.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-S: Hauppauge nexus-s versus 
Twinhan/Skystarcards


> Johan Reinalda wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I am looking at replacing my external DVB-S/FTA receiver with a dvb-s 
>> card in my myth box.
>>
>> As there is roughly US$100 difference in cost between the high-end 
>> Nexus-s with hardware mpg2, and the low-end Twinhan/Skystar cards, I 
>> would like to know what the CPU load difference is between the 2 types.
>>
>> I understand that the low-end cards will have to split PID on the 
>> transponder in software, but considering the stream is already mgp2, I 
>> wonder how much work/cpu-load this really is. Does anyone have any 
>> comparisons for these two type on roughly equivalent hardware?
>>
>> I am running myth on an AMD64/2800+, which during all my myth-usage stays 
>> in the lowest cpu speed of 1GHZ; recording with PVR-150 uses about 2-3% 
>> cpu, playback on FX5200 card uses roughly 18% cpu; this makes for a 
>> reasonably quiet system, and I'd like to keep it that way. (I do 
>> transcoding and compiling 'after hours' and then it runs at full speed 
>> and 'full noise' :-) )
>>
>> Any information would be appreciated.
>>
>
> No difference at all. The Twinhan cards do (As far as I know) have 
> hardware PID filters. The "Fully featured" cards have a MPEG decoder on 
> board.
>
> However, I have had poor experiences with Twinhan (specifically, the DVB-S 
> CI version) recently. You may be better trying to get hold of a 
> second-hand dvb-s card (Budget card) from ebay.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Allan.
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