On 19/10/2018 19:16, Theo wrote:
> A. Dumas  wrote:
>> Yeah definitely no decryption. Also HEVC HD is a problem. Quoting some
>> reactions from the blog page below. The first two are especially
>> troublesome, as they seem to be from official developers and indicate
>> that they didn't aim this product at anything but the UK, really. This
>> leaves the function of the Pi+HAT as a LAN streamer, with
>> decoding/decrypting left to the receiving device. We (outside the UK)
>> would almost certainly be better off with any DVB-T2 usb-stick.
>
> I don't know the ins-and-outs of DVB, but am I right in thinking this is the
> RF frontend, which outputs the DVB-T(2) stream?  Decoding/decrypting that
> stream is then someone else's problem.
>
> If you have a USB stick, does it do anything different?  I've only seen an
> RF frontend chip and then a USB stream chip, but I think those are still
> relying on software decode once it's been received over USB.  For instance,
> few of the sticks here take smartcards:
> https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T2_USB_Devices
>
> The one advantage with this is it's a fixed, relatively low cost, target.
> With USB sticks, especially at the lower end, the chips inside can change
> between batches which makes Linux drivers problematic.
>
> Theo
>
I think linux has caught up with most of the chipsets.

I have had, since 2.6.26 anyway, nothing but success with any dongles/cards.

I use kaffeine ususally to actually watch the thing and yes, CPU and GPU
performance is crucial


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