[mythtvnz] What DVB-T cards are people using in NZ?

[Steven Ellis]

On Wed, February 13, 2008 8:22 am, Kenneth Dixon wrote:
> Ah, sorry for the confusion, I will try and clear things up:
>
> -Looks like a lot of the DVB-T tuner cards are up and
> running on Linux/Mythtv, if not out of the box yet.
>
> -The issues with video relate to interlaced video streams,
> specifically the use of PAFF interlacing, the TV1 and TV2
> DVB-T streams are progressive so you shouldn't have any
> problems watching these. I'm not sure of the status of the
> PAFF de-interlacing, but I think it is being worked on by
> the mplayer/ffmpeg team.
>
> -I am unsure of the audio status, but i think it is doable
> via a patch.
>
> Basically if you have a spare PCI slot / USB port, you could
> get a DVB-T tuner and get TV1 and TV2 as another source on
> mythtv currently, then wait for the rest of the software to
> catch up.

But make sure you have enough grunt to handle 720p H.264 playback. I can
get clean playback under mplayer on an Athlon 64 3000, but not under
MythTV.

Steve


>
> ----- Original Message Follows -----
>> Kenneth Dixon wrote:
>> > For just DVB-T I would recommend a Hauppauge WinTV
>> > Nova-T 500.
>> > It has dual DVB-T tuners with one antenna input.
>> > A bit fiddly to get going, but well worth it. see:
>> >
>>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI
>> >
>>
>> Hi Ken
>>
>> As the previous people in this thread said HD video&audio
>> don't work  under MythTV due to codec problems, can you
>> explain to me what "well  worth it" means? :-)
>>
>>  From what I'm hearing, the Linux hardware support for DVB
>> is "just  about there" - but the software/codec support
>> still has some way to go  before anyone can sit down and
>> use MythTV in the same way it can be used  TODAY with
>> analog/PAL?
>>
>> Is that about right? I'm confused
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jason
>>
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