Linux only hardware

[madluther]

http://www.pchdtv.com/hd_2000.html

I want one.

Mad.

[erosnemesis]

Wow that is a nice card. I would want one too. But the price is kinda outrageuos. Thanks for the URL

[Zombie9920]

Are you kidding me? I'd take this one over that piece of shit anyday.

http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/Video/mdp120.asp

Look at all of the resolutions this one can do. This one has more inputs. This one has a Hardware MPEG-2 decoder. That Linux one says *Display and MPEG2 decoding are done on the host computer in software*. This card supports Dolby 5.1 Digital via S/PDIF....that Linux card doesn't have Audio support it doesn't look like. You can connect a DVI Daughterboard to the MDP120....It doesn't look like that Linux only card supports a DVI daughterboard.

No wonder the thing is so cheap. Anybody who is serious with encoding video on a computer wouldn't buy that Linux only card simply because it lacks features. It is trash compared to some of the other cards on the market.

[ October 09, 2003: Message edited by: Viper ]

[suselinux]

quote:

System Requirements

    * Intel

[Zombie9920]

Do you know why it requires a 1.2ghz+ CPU? Because it does all of it's work in software.
Cards that do the work from the cards hardware processor work just fine on 400mhz systems because the card isn't very CPU dependant.

My system is more than powerful enough for the software card but I think I'd opt to spare my CPU cycles for other things by using the hardware decoding card. More CPU cycles = more CPU intensive things you can do while viewing video being played back by the card.

[Enmity]

What linux(or opensource actually) has over proprietary stuff is its versatality. Using this would take one major speciality and advantage of Linux away