The Aver DVB-T card is a nice piece of hard ware, supplying S-video and Composite capture inputs, in addition to the Digital terrestrial tuner. It fitted into my CDP case perfectly.
Unfortunately, the software needs a faster processor. It works OK on a radio channel (CPU usage 25-60%) but, as soon as it tries to display a picture (even a still image), the CPU usage hits the top and the picture stutters. It seems to record OK but, the ME6000 hasn't enough puff (even when over clocked to 800MHz) to decode the MPEG2 stream in software.
If the software supported the EPIA’s MPEG hardware then it might work; For instance Playing a DVD with PowerDVD 4, runs the cpu at 100% (and reduced frame rate) without hardware, or just ~50% with it enabled. If the avermedia software made the same use of the EPIA board’s hardware, then it may have worked well.
I emailed AverMedia to enquire if they are going to support the EPIA boards, but
they said they had 'no plans to currently'.
