On Feb 19, 2008 11:04 PM, Johan Schuld <<a href="mailto:johanschuld@gmail.com">johanschuld@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Now one thing that puzzles me is MPEG2 on DVB-T. The freeview site mentions that DVB-T in NZ uses MPEG-4. So how does that affect the cards? I can not find any card listing MPEG-4 encoding. I don't quite see why the encoding is needed on a digital stream, is it not received encoded en the card "simply" dumps it on the drive?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>DVB cards don't do encoding - the signal is already mpeg2 or mpeg4 encoded. They simply tune to the right multiplex and capture the stream of packets (possibly filtering for a particular station). Only analogue capture cards need to encode what they are capturing.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br>