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| 650736 | 2008-03-20 03:50:00 | Any one heard if Windows (Vista) Media Center is likely to be able to "tune in" in the (near) future? Assuming you have the appropriate tuner of course.:badpc: | mattv (11815) | ||
| 650737 | 2008-03-20 04:38:00 | I wish they'd put a tower on Mt Campbell! Do you know where the Nelson tower will be? The Grampians, scheduled for "Stage2" coverage increase |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 650738 | 2008-03-22 10:33:00 | I use ASUS notebook that has a built-in DVB-T TV tuner. Using Windows XP Would I need to have DVBviewer to tune in the channels. |
hp4200 (4026) | ||
| 650739 | 2008-03-23 08:17:00 | I use ASUS notebook that has a built-in DVB-T TV tuner. Using Windows XP Would I need to have DVBviewer to tune in the channels. Yes (as long as tuner is not hardware encoded), needs to be grunty too (have got my Leadtek DTV2000-H card working, on Scott's instructions, but the Athlon XP 2500+ cpu is nowhere near fast enough, should run fine on my C2D E6750). By the way, you can buy digital terrestrial STBs here (www.freeviewshop.co.nz). (Expensive, huh!) |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 650740 | 2008-03-24 02:11:00 | Has anyone else got this working yet? I've set mine up, after a lot of fiddling yesterday, and after trying numerous aerials. It plays live TV fine most of the time - all of the TVNZ and Canwest streams are generally stable and reliable, audio and video are both fine. It appears to be streaming at about 10MBit/s most of the time. I must say, DVBViewer is a fantastic piece of software. At 15 Euros or US$19, it's well worth it. This one of few applications I have purchased myself over the internet, and I must say that it's been well worth it! The developer is very helpful, and very quick in responding - shortly after I paid for it by credit card, I got an email from him giving me the details to download and register the program. I am running into an issue though. Recording TV1 or TV2 streams works fine - it records in high-def to the ".TS" format, video and audio both fine. When I record TV3 streams, the video is fine (in 1920x1080px resolution), but it drops the audio track - i.e. there is no audio track in the file. I have tried various tweaks here and there, with no success thus far. Does anyone have any suggestions? My other problem is that my laptop isn't grunty enough to handle the high-def video, so I end up with dropped frames quite often. That's unavoidable though. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 650741 | 2008-03-25 02:41:00 | I've ordered a USB DVB-T receiver and hopefully it'll arrive in the next couple of days. I'm looking forward to giving this a go :) | Nermal (7077) | ||
| 650742 | 2008-03-27 23:53:00 | Sorry for the double post, for some reason the edit button's disappeared. My USB stick has arrived (an Elgato Hybrid, which seems to be a rebranded Hauppage WinTV HVR-900) and it's recognised by DVBViewer. No luck tuning in the channels yet but I'll get there... On the other hand, the "hybrid" part of the tuner is working: I can pick up the analogue channels and connect my PS2 :) |
Nermal (7077) | ||
| 650743 | 2008-03-29 07:41:00 | I have just read a bit about it......it doesnt mention specifically if the Satellite will or will not be providing HD at some time.....it would be nice to know one way or the other. | RusEvo (3572) | ||
| 650744 | 2008-03-29 07:58:00 | I have just read a bit about it......it doesnt mention specifically if the Satellite will or will not be providing HD at some time.....it would be nice to know one way or the other. There was an article floating around which said that HD via satellite is still in the works, and that they're waiting on Sky TV to make up their mind before announcing anything. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 650745 | 2008-03-29 07:59:00 | Has anyone else got this working yet? I've set mine up, after a lot of fiddling yesterday, and after trying numerous aerials. It plays live TV fine most of the time - all of the TVNZ and Canwest streams are generally stable and reliable, audio and video are both fine. It appears to be streaming at about 10MBit/s most of the time. I must say, DVBViewer is a fantastic piece of software. At 15 Euros or US$19, it's well worth it. This one of few applications I have purchased myself over the internet, and I must say that it's been well worth it! The developer is very helpful, and very quick in responding - shortly after I paid for it by credit card, I got an email from him giving me the details to download and register the program. I am running into an issue though. Recording TV1 or TV2 streams works fine - it records in high-def to the ".TS" format, video and audio both fine. When I record TV3 streams, the video is fine (in 1920x1080px resolution), but it drops the audio track - i.e. there is no audio track in the file. I have tried various tweaks here and there, with no success thus far. Does anyone have any suggestions? My other problem is that my laptop isn't grunty enough to handle the high-def video, so I end up with dropped frames quite often. That's unavoidable though. Just a follow up, it seems that I've misunderstood the way the recording works. It seems that DVBViewer records the raw digital stream, rather than a re-encoded version. So - audio is being recorded - it's just that none of my media players can play it. DVBViewer's "TS Player" software works though. |
somebody (208) | ||
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