[MPlayer-users] Re: Philips SAA7134 vs. BT878?

[Filip Kalinski]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 03:23:46PM +0100, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

> Filip Kalinski wrote:
> 
> > Which is better?
> 
> The BT8x8 chips are rather old, the newcomer SAA7134 is better:
> 9bit A/D converter (BT8x8: 8Bit)
> Better signal to noise ration than BT8x8.
> Good integrated stereo decoder.
> The new conexant chip CX23881 is not yet widely used, but seems to be
> comparable to the SAA7134, although in the current c't TV-Card test they
> write about the Hauppauge WinTV Go, which uses the CX23881 in recent
> batches, that the videoquality is the same, but the audio channel
> separation is not as good. Also note, that for the SAA7134 a linux
> driver is available, but unless the CX23881 is backwards compatible to
> the BT8x8 chips, there is none for that one yet.

Thanks for advice.

-- 
Filip Kalinski <filon at pld.org.pl>