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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Aaron Drysdale <Aaron.Drysdale@provencocadmus.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> MythTV in NZ <mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, 22 May, 2009 10:28:05 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [mythtvnz] Nova-T 500 working with Freeview HD<BR></FONT><BR>Tortise wrote:<BR>> Still why not go for DVB-T as it needs more people using it to get it<BR>polished!<BR><BR>Well I did go with DVB-T in the end - I was on my way home with a new<BR>Nova-T when these emails came through about just using a splitter.<BR>People at my work had completely put me wrong about dual LNB<BR>requirements for multiple tuners. Still, they are pretty happy now that<BR>I have corrected them.<BR><BR>Freeview HD is going well, the biggest problem
I had was learning about<BR>multiple tuners, video sources, and inputs - and how they relate to each<BR>other. The two minor inconveniences I have now are:<BR><BR>1. Slight blockiness on my HD channels when using the Nova-T tuner,<BR>almost as though the bitrate has dropped off momentarily. Only happens<BR>for a few seconds every 10 minutes or so, and I have put this down to<BR>problems with VDPAU which I'm assuming will gradually improve as nVidia<BR>release new driver versions. (I'm using an 8500GT Silent with 512MB<BR>memory - it could be that the card is slightly under spec'ed to give<BR>perfectly smooth playback 100% of the time I guess.)</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">SV Writes. Is the blockiness only during panning motion and other fast motion? Is it more pronounced on some channels than it is on others. Especially compare say TVone with TV3.<BR><BR>2. EIT data on the DVB-T card isn't all coming down. I get perfect EIT<BR>data on the DVB-S, but lots of gaps in the guide data in the other<BR>tuner. I thought that the guide would pull the best information from<BR>across the tuners, or give you the option to only use the information<BR>from a particular source, but it doesn't seem to work like that. I think<BR>I need to take the step to using XML data from somewhere - people from<BR>my work have been singing its praises telling me that if I use this data<BR>I will get proper categories and more consistent naming. Any links to<BR>where I can look at this?<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">SV Writes: Yep you meed to use XML data, If nobody else chips in I'll find some time to write up how I did it.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR>Early days yet, but I am more than happy with the improved video quality<BR>and I think it will get a high WAF. (Time will tell). No crashes in the<BR>few hours it's been used in earnest.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">SV Writes: Yep mine does not crash either - very happy with stability but then again I haven't attempted fast channel switching.<BR><BR>Aaron<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mythtvnz mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz" ymailto="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">mythtvnz@lists..linuxnut.co.nz</A><BR><A href="http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz" target=_blank>http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz</A><BR>Archives <A href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/" target=_blank>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/</A><BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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