[Mplayer-dvb] Hauppage Nova display and record

[Arpi]

Hi,

> 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 i
> f 
> it works really fine.

if dvbsteram support that card, then yes, it's possible.
i have dvb-s 1.3, it works fine, even with sw decoding.

> 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 kin
> d 
> 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 
it's mencoder, not mplayer

> maybe mine is not enough (Pentium III 500 Mhz), but I would like to know if 
> it is possible and usable.
no... your is at the limit/boundary of playback requirement...

i was able to realtime record to 720x288 (vertically scaled down to half -
solves interlacing problem and reduce cpu requirement) using ~60-80% cpu
of p4 1.8ghz... (using XviD at q=5)

libavcodec is faster - but has worse quality.

> 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 ?
yes. it's the better way, as you can do 2-pass encoding then.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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