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

[Steven Ellis]

On Wed, February 13, 2008 9:06 am, Graeme Woollett wrote:
>
>> MythTV and DVB work really well for SD or MPEG-2 based HD. In fact it
>> works better than with analogue. The problem here in NZ is the HD
>> variant
>> they have chosen to use based on H.264 + HE-AAC audio. This is
>> relatively
>> new in the DVB space and we are amongst the first half dozen countries
>> to
>> roll it out. Hence support in MythTV is currently somewhat lacking.
>> Video
>> almost works, but audio hasn't been implemented yet.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
> This is why I opted to go for the hybrid cards like the HVR4000 or
> 3000.  The HVR3000 ($119+GST) is price competitive with the SkyStar2.
> I have the benefit of stable DVB-S/mpeg2, and when support for NZ's type
> of HD is stable (and when I have a nice new shiny HDTV :-) ), I'll
> switch to DVB-T.
> I suspect (and may be wrong) that if the support for the above cards is
> only just there, (i.e not even in the mainstream kernel) support for
> PCI-E DVB cards is a long way off.
>
> My thanks to Steve, Craig and others for their work collaborating with
> developers to make Mythtv & MPlayer work with NZ DVB-T

My only issue with the HVR3000 and HVR4000 is that there is no hardware
MPEG2 encoding of analogue captures.

Steve

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