[mythtvnz] Nova-T 500 working with Freeview HD

[Steven Ellis]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 1:43 pm, Aaron Drysdale wrote:
> After getting my system working perfectly with a Nova-S Plus and VDPAU, I
> would like to expand my setup with a Nova-T 500 to get Freeview HD and
> have multiple tuners.
>
> I've read the most recent article in Mythtvnz, where it summarises that it
> mostly works, but is not quite ready for prime time yet. I'm wondering, is
> this a case of YMMV? My system has plenty of CPU grunt, and I'm also using
> JYA's VDPAU backport on an nVidia 8500GT very successfully. Does anyone
> actually use a Nova-T 500 full time for watching Live TV? Is it possible
> yet, or still just for playing with? This is a system that my wife and
> kids use probably more than I do.
>
> Also, I'm a little confused about what I need in my frontend to playback
> Freeview HD. If I understand correctly, I would need a specific audio
> codec to get sound. Is this supported in JYA's frontend? Or do I need to
> use Paul Rendall's repository? And if I use that, do I then lose VDPAU?
>

For a lot of MythTV users freeview|HD is usable as long as you don't mind
the odd frontend crash. For "consumers" it still isn't ready. The first
thing any customer does with a new myPVR is change live  TV channels as
quickly as possible. If that crashes in the first 5-10 minutes i'm looking
a bit silly.

At the moment if I can't get a frontend uptime measured in months then I
can't ship it. My wife is used to MythTV and my WAF would drop to a
serious low if we tried to use freeview|HD a lot.

I'd be interested to hear how if the  WAF has changed with freeview|HD for
other members of the list.

Steve


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