giorusso Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 ...I actually am under XP and like to know which PCI sat device would u buy now 4 dvb and dvb-s2 channels (free and pay-tv HDTV channels eventually); of course the good drivers support should be nice too as maybe (said maybe) I should upgrade my sistem to Vista. Actuallly this is my HTPC conf: HTreading P4 at 3.2Ghz with 1GB DDR2 with XPSP2, NVidia GT7800 video card (and last drivers and PureVideo)...also have CoreAVC h264 codec (last version); as sat card actually am using the good old SS2 Maybe if u can give experience on where to buy it would be nice. Tnx. Quote Link to comment
retro Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 A 3.2 P4 is to weak for DVB-S2 anyway. Yes, it will give you a picture, but not very enjoyable. I have a 3.6 P4, and while watching S2 H264 material works at anywhere between 60 to 100% cpu-load depending on channel, it stutters.. As for Vista, what's the hurry....? At the moment, there are no Vista drivers for the popular S2-cards, AFAIK. Quote Link to comment
giorusso Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 ...mmm and as I can see actually there not a huge choice on the market: only the Technotrend/Technisat one...maybe in fact it's better to wait a little bit more Quote Link to comment
kaisersose Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 The technisat/technotrend cards are all you need, no newer cards are gonna offer anything different, they work fine with vista and of course they have vista drivers. The skystar hd is just like askystar 2 which lets you watch hd as well, what more do you want? Quote Link to comment
Rittberg Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 HTreading P4 at 3.2Ghz with 1GB DDR2 with XPSP2, NVidia GT7800 video card (and last drivers and PureVideo)...also have CoreAVC h264 codec (last version); as sat card actually am using the good old SS2Maybe if u can give experience on where to buy it would be nice. Tnx. I upgrade my HTPC from P4 2.54 (& DVB-S card) > P4 3.6 OC > 4.15( 1GRAM + Nvidia 7900GT & TT DVB-S2 3200) and this was not enough for demanding SVB-S2 channels, at the end I upgrade once again to E6700 and now it's working very good. With the most demanding channels (@ 20 Mbits/s + ) the CPU is at 20 - 35 % max. Quote Link to comment
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