[mythtvnz] Hello from Norway -- Your dvb-t brethren

[Michael Dilger]

Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
> I just joined the list because I hit your archives when googling for 
> dvb-t, mythtv and nz. Norway uses (more or less) the same standard for 
> DVB-T as New Zealand, so I'll be watching what happens on that front 
> closely. I finally got myth going again with analog tv, (after a short 
> period running kernel 2.6.25 :-( ), so I will not be building the custom 
> myth for dvb-t just yet.
>
> The main obstacle I see at the moment is the handling of interlaced 
> content. ALL the dvb-t content in Norway is interlaced, so the stripes 
> and mpeg-artifacts in the images are really annoying. I take a peek at 
> the state of things by building mplayer from svn about once a week. Some 
> of the crashing bugs have been ironed out, and I got a patch to make 
> audio stay in sync for interlaced content. That patch still applies to 
> current svn, so the current state of interlaced dvb-t in mplayer is 
> "barely watchable if you really must".
>
> If progress is made I'll be happy to try out patches, time permitting. 
> I'm running gentoo with mythtv-0.21_p17100 and faad2-2.6.1-r1 at the 
> moment, I'm sure I will be able to bungle my way into making a custom 
> ebuild :-)
>   

Sounds like you have it worse than we do.   I don't get any stripes, 
just blocking artifacts that are a bit annoying but ignorable if you get 
used to it.   We may be on the same standards, but watching video 
encoded by different technologies.

Welcome to the list.   I'm glad to have more gentoo people working on 
this stuff ;-)

-Mike