[mythtv-users] UK Freview HD isers - what specs are your frontends
Tim Small
tim at buttersideup.com
Thu Mar 29 14:41:45 UTC 2007
David Campbell wrote:
> This is very interesting but I am a little lost.
>
> Can you explain the differences between the DVB-T and DVB-S and how
> DVB-S would allow a system incapable of decoding H264 to be able to do it?
>
> I already have a Sky dish - just no Sky HD box.
>
There's not much difference, apart from the fact that one is from
terrestrial, and one is for satellite broadcasting. No difference in
CPU power required (My Core 2 Duo Mobile can just about do it with the
"skiploopfilter" option using the free software - which only uses a
single core for the video decoding), but if you already have a Sky dish,
then it may be easier to receive the stream from satellite, rather than
terrestrial.
I believe the HD freeview broadcast is at quite low power from a single
South London transmitter, and the license was only initially granted for
a year (that may have been extended tho).
e.g. see this link if you haven't already -
http://www.ukfree.tv/freehdtv.php
Tim.
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