[mythtvnz] Hello from Norway -- Your dvb-t brethren

[Paul Kendall]

On Friday 23 May 2008 22:22:49 Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
> I just joined the list because I hit your archives when googling for
> dvb-t, mythtv and nz. Norway uses (more or less) the same standard for
> DVB-T as New Zealand, so I'll be watching what happens on that front
> closely. I finally got myth going again with analog tv, (after a short
> period running kernel 2.6.25 :-( ), so I will not be building the custom
> myth for dvb-t just yet.
>
> The main obstacle I see at the moment is the handling of interlaced
> content. ALL the dvb-t content in Norway is interlaced, so the stripes
> and mpeg-artifacts in the images are really annoying. I take a peek at
> the state of things by building mplayer from svn about once a week. Some
> of the crashing bugs have been ironed out, and I got a patch to make
> audio stay in sync for interlaced content. That patch still applies to
> current svn, so the current state of interlaced dvb-t in mplayer is
> "barely watchable if you really must".
>
> If progress is made I'll be happy to try out patches, time permitting.
> I'm running gentoo with mythtv-0.21_p17100 and faad2-2.6.1-r1 at the
> moment, I'm sure I will be able to bungle my way into making a custom
> ebuild :-)


You might want to check out the patches I have made to mythtv to update the 
ffmpeg to the latest svn and also include latm support without rebuilding 
libfaad2. http://pkendall.homeip.net

Cheers,
Paul