[mythtvnz] A few MythTV questions

[Noel & Di]

Hi Aaron.

If you phone $ky, and get them to do a "prime only" sat install you get 
a "prime-only" sat receiver, dish & full install for $145. Then go out & 
buy yourself a FTA receiver.  this is the cheapest way to get a sat dish 
professionally installed.  I am an authorized FV installer (& ex $ky 
installer from when D3 first lit up).
Hope this helps!
Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been trying to figure out a few things and I was hoping that
> people on this list could help me:
>
> 1. I am running Myth on a 2.4 GHz P4 with an nVidia GeForce 4 Ti. I am
> keen to set up Freeview on my machine (sound on the analogue and the
> lack of a proper aspect ratio definition are pretty annoying), but have
> been waiting to see what happens with the hardware-accelerated H.264
> decoding. It recently occurred to me that my machine may not be powerful
> enough, even if everything was fully accelerated. I could upgrade the
> graphics to anything else AGP. Am I likely to be able to play H.264 on
> this machine if everything goes well, or should I just settle on MPEG-2?
>
> 2. Has anyone got 5.1 sound working? Is the way that people are doing
> this using S/PDIF over coax/optical? How well does the S/PDIF
> pass-through work with recent distributions? Most guides that I have
> found are quite old.  I assume that the S/PDIF carries a digital signal
> encoded in AC3 or PCM. Is there some negotiation between the card and
> the computer that lets the computer figure out which formats it can
> pass-through and which have to be re-encoded into formats that the
> stereo etc. can support? Do you set all of that manually?
>
> 3. Does anyone know of anyone that does cheap, but decent, Freeview
> satellite installations? Surely some student or something is doing it
> for some extra cash? The best that I have found so far is someone who
> will install your satellite for $150 - then I could get one of TradeMe
> for ~$100.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Aaron
>
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