[Mplayer-dvb] Hauppage Nova display and record

[Benoit Jacquemont]

Hi everybody,

I'm thinking about buying a Hauppage Nova DVB card. This a low budget card, 
this means there's no hardware MPEG2 support from the card. So the decoding 
is a software one.

I read that is possible to make the stream from the card flow to MPlayer for 
decoding and display. First of all, I would lilke to know if it's true and if 
it works really fine.

The second thing : what I would like to do with this card is to record in 
DivX ;-) format the live stream. Is it possible to make MPlayer act as a kind 
of filter/converter between the live MPEG2-encoded stream from the card and 
the hard drive as a DivX file ? I think it means a powerful computer ( and 
maybe mine is not enough (Pentium III 500 Mhz), but I would like to know if 
it is possible and usable.

In case my hardware is to weak, is it possible to record the live stream on 
my HD and convert it in DivX ;-) format latter ?

Please let me know what is possible or not, and if the Nova DVB card is good 
choice to begin with DVB...

Thanks in advance, and congratulations to the MPlayer developers ! Please 
continue to improve the already best video player for Linux and don't listen 
to what all these jealous people tell about your soft !

Benoit