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On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:57:23 GMT, "dvb guy" <pleasedont@spamme.com>
wrote:
><mehdi.mansor@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:1111452563.439418.106940@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>> I hvae a pentium III 800 half cache and 256 mb ram and Ati 32 Mb
>> Graphic Card i wanna buy a dvb card for watching fta chaneels can i buy
>> skaystar2 dvb card?
>> or i need a card with hardware decoder?
>
>
>Oh goodness, let me answer this one. It's kinda unbelievable, but hey..
>I have a Pentium III 800MHz with 190 megs of ram and ATI RAGE
>video card. I was running a Skystar2 DVB card. I can tell you now,
>while it technically will work, the performance leaves a LOT to be
>desired. Choppy video and audio out of sync with the video were
>things to be expected. I would highly recommend you get something
>with an onboard MPEG decoder (such as the Nexus-S). I have since
>sold my Skystar2. Nothing against them, they are great little devices,
>and not too expensive either, but the performance with my computer
>was just terrible. Sold it off to someone with a faster computer!
>I've been very happy with my Nexus-S, and the video quality is
>just incredible. With an onboard video decoder, the load on the CPU
>is eased enough that it runs fine.
Ha, I just played an HDTV 1920x1080 4:2:2 wildfeed with a P3 500mhz
with progdvb and my nexus-s in SOFTMODE!
It was even smoothish..
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