On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:17 AM, David Watkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:watkinshome@gmail.com">watkinshome@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2008/11/29 Frank Lynch <<a href="mailto:frank.lynch@gmail.com">frank.lynch@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> There is a DVB pilot underway in Ireland with video encoded using MPEG-4. I<br>
> was wondering if any DVB reciever (I'm looking to purchase a usb dvb<br>
> receiver) will be able to capture such a stream.<br>
> Do DVB-T cards simply tune and dump the streams or do they care about the<br>
> format of the data being received?<br>
> thanks,<br>
> --Frank<br>
<br>
</div></div>I was able to capture DVB-T HD from the London, Crystal Palace<br>
transmitter trial last year using my NOVA-Ts. I couldn't easily play<br>
them back, but that's another story.<br>
<br>
However I understand that when DVB-T HD is actually launched in UK it<br>
will use DVB2, and my existing cards won't be suitable.<br>
<br>
You need to find out what your pilot is using.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I understand it they are using DVB-T with MPEG-4 in Ireland[1], I believe that France uses MPEG-4 for HD DVB transmission and that MPEG-4 is also used with DVB in Estonia, Norway, Poland & India. I'm hoping that I can use a pretty standard DVB-T usb stick to capture
one of these streams. If your in one of those countries and have are capturing MPEG-4 with DVB can you please reply as I'd love to
hear about what your using ( I'm about to purchase hardware). Ideally I'm looking for a recommendation for a DVB usb stick as I'd like to run the server in a msi wind or eee box.<br>cheers,<br>--Frank<br><br>
[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T_in_Ireland">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T_in_Ireland</a><br><br>