[mythtv-users] BBC One HD to start in test at least on 3rd November.

[Andre]

On 19 Oct 2010, at 12:40, Paul Gray wrote:

> On 19/10/2010 10:55, George Poulson wrote:
>> On 19 October 2010 10:39, Andre <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk
>> <mailto:mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk>> wrote:
>> 
>>    I have one lnb feed shared to two DVBS cards using loop through
>>    <http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users>
>> 
>> 
>> This sounds like i could be an interesting option for me.. which [HD]
>> cards do you use that provide 'loop through'?
> 
> Yeah, that's interesting. My setup is SD only via Freeview. I was
> intending to wait for HD until the digital switchover, but it's
> another year away here in Oxford. Also there's no guarantee we'll
> have DVB-T2 cards plus working linux drivers by then even. So I'm

This will be an excellent solution with four HD channels in one mux, multirec will be great... 

If drivers get developed (a usb stick is supposedly available soon), if the hardware allows full mux tuning, if the hardware can deliver the full mux without problems, if the drivers can handle 40Mb/s without problems! Hopefully it will get significant attention but most of the linux-media driver developers seem to be in the USA.

Oh and Freeview HD uses AAC surround audio rather than AC3, will need support for that too, even with loopthough very very few surround sound amps will decode it.

I'm hoping that linux support is available and stable by the time our local tx gets it, mid 2012.

Freesat works now.



> thinking I should bite the bullet with Freesat.
> 
> Any advice? Maybe a list of articles I should read?

There's a bunch of stuff in the wiki and there have been some excellent threads here on combining Freesat & Freeview effectively.


> I've been getting
> away with a single HDD in my backend so far with a Nova-T 500 with
> it's two tuners both split into 2 virtual tuners. Will I need dedicated
> HDDs for HD recording?

If you record loads of stuff a couple of modern disks as well as your system disk (logs and database especially) should be fine.
Recording any HD with only one disk is a bit risky and of course the only decent shows in proper HD on ITV seem to always be at the same time as the only decent shows on BBC HD!

Again the wiki has loads on disk optimisation and system layout.

> 
> Also wondering whether PQ would be better for SD channels on Freesat.

It was worse, then it was better, provided you wanted to watch West Country regions, then it was about the same, now they just juggled everything BBC again so might be worse (more channels in a mux) or might be better (better mixture of channels in statmux), ask again in a week or two...

Andre