mty Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 Have any body with experience with the tow card: SkyStar1 and SkyStar2? And can answer me: *Have a reason (except the price) to prefer the skystar2? *Have a known conflict between the drivers of SkyStar1 and TV card like TerraTV or FlyVideo.? *Have a known conflict between the drivers of SkyStar1 and SkyStar2? *The recording file from the both card is in same format, with the same problem, (Editing, converting, ..) Quote Link to comment
Guest Michael Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 *Have a reason (except the price) to prefer the skystar2? sure.... you can be a part in our great community *Have a known conflict between the drivers of SkyStar1 and TV card like TerraTV or FlyVideo.? skystar cards are digital cards and have not really something to do with normal analog tv cards... therefore there shouldn't be driver conflicts... ( i haven't got any with my bt848 card ) *Have a known conflict between the drivers of SkyStar1 and SkyStar2? haven't got ss2 and ss1... but why do you want to have both cards in your pc ??? *The recording file from the both card is in same format, with the same problem, (Editing, converting, ..) should be the same... in ss2 you can record mpg ( multiplexed & demultiplexed ) + pva and you can record with only 2% cpu usage with recorder.exe don't know how much cpu the ss1 uses ... other aspects: *ss1 has mpeg2 decorder.... -> less cpu usage than ss2 has... ( but... today everybody has enought MHZ ) *ss1 has good paytv support .... ss2 is on the way to have it, too... *the price.... you already mentioned it... *ss1 has open source drivers ( maybe you are intrested in that ) *ss2 can handle much data tranfer ( like from eon ) better than ss1... *ss2 has DVBViewer.... ... with many updates... cool new features... and the incoming XVR renderer.... Quote Link to comment
mty Posted January 6, 2003 Author Share Posted January 6, 2003 [/quote skystar cards are digital cards and have not really something to do with normal analog tv cards... therefore there shouldn't be driver conflicts... ( i haven't got any with my bt848 card ) ] you right, i try ss2 with TerraTV, it is work at the same time without problam. but skystar1, is contact with the graphic card more likely analogTV, that reason for my question, if have conflict? [quote don't know how much cpu the ss1 uses ... ] how much cpu the ss1 uses for recording? (directly from the DVB stream or not) and the recording method is the same as ss2? the output format is same? or what is format? Also I want to know, if ss1 will able to watch newest broadcast format like mpg4 by software directly from DVB stream. Or it able to watch only via the Mpg2 hardware on the card? Quote Link to comment
Mister X Posted January 7, 2003 Share Posted January 7, 2003 >Have any body with experience with the tow card: SkyStar1 and SkyStar2? I have >*Have a reason (except the price) to prefer the skystar2? SS1 is a number of hardware devices in embeded. Like a composite/SVHS/RGB TV out. So real questions are: Would You like to use all possibilities? Do You have some of hardware allready? >*Have a known conflict between the drivers of SkyStar1 and SkyStar2? I have both installed on 1 computer. There is no problem. >*ss1 has mpeg2 decorder.... -> less cpu usage than ss2 has... ... and Hardware CSA descrambler too 8) >( but... today everybody has enought MHZ ) If You have old unused computer then You can easyly transform it to SetTopBox. AFAIK SS1 on Pentium300 works fine. >*The recording file from the both card is in same >format, with the same problem, (Editing, converting, ..) SS1 uses own proprietary format AVPES. Its based on design of internal HW MPEG2 decoder. IMHO SS2 is better for recording, becouse it can dump real DVB stream that mean no additional conversion. Currently SS1 is most popular TV card so there is more tools for it. But I bet that everything will change soon. IMHO 2003 year will be year of budget cards!!! >*ss1 has good paytv support .... ss2 is on the way to have it, too... Not exactly. SS2 will not have paytv support by manufacturer. entusiasts must write some code for every new encryption. >Also I want to know, if ss1 will able to watch newest >broadcast format like mpg4 by software directly from >DVB stream. Yes it can on screen of monitor. But You need powerfull CPU. >Or it able to watch only via the Mpg2 hardware on the card? You want to display something on TV You need to put data into hardware decoder. For instance if You want to playback DivX on SS1 You need to transode it from mpeg4 into mpeg2 on the fly. Hope it helps Quote Link to comment
mty Posted January 8, 2003 Author Share Posted January 8, 2003 >Or it able to watch only via the Mpg2 hardware on the card? You want to display something on TV You need to put data into hardware decoder. For instance if You want to playback DivX on SS1 You need to transode it from mpeg4 into mpeg2 on the fly. My question is, if (in future) broadcast from satellite came with another format, Like mp3,mpg4. that mean, the decoder of ss1 not able to deal with this! Now question is if, can decode the pure DVB by software like we do that in Ss2? Quote Link to comment
Klausing Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 I belief that in nearly future christian make a real stream recorder. And than its indifferent in which format the staion sends! If you can record the stream, you can wantch the stream. Quote Link to comment
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