<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Neil Sedger</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@moley.org.uk">mythtv-users@moley.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Rudy Zijlstra wrote:<br><br>> - BBC HD, which can be captured as its DVB-S. I am playing with that<br>> one, difficult though. So far none of my systems is able to play it.<br><br>Having said that the only HD channel we can get in the UK is the BBC's, I'm not sure if thats worth upgrading everything for. Unless the Sky HD channels will decrypt with a CAM, but I've read mixed results from people trying to watch Sky's encrypted SD channels that way with Myth.
</blockquote><div><br>I'm using a Technotrend TT-budget S-1500 DVB-S card, add-on CI daughter card and DragonCAM (Firecrypt) CAM to capture Sky here in the UK. It works perfectly (using a recent SVN) decoding all the channels I subscribe to (Artsworld, Discovery, etc). I don't use the premium channels (Sky Movies or Sports) - so can't vouch if those work or not.
<br><br>I can also play back the BBC HD stream from my more powerful system (a C2D E6400, 2GB RAM, Nvidia 7100GS). It plays with no stuttering and uses ~40% of one core and 10% of another when playing/ decoding. (It doesn't play on any of my less powerful frontends though).
<br><br>The Planet Earth series that was recently broadcast was stunning (and shot in real HD). A lot of the other stuff they broadcast is just upsampled.<br><br>The Sky HD stuff (which I don't subscribe to) uses DVB-S2 I believe, which according to recent posts, isn't ready yet.
<br> </div><br><br>Nick</div>