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

[Andre]

On 19 Oct 2010, at 13:14, George Poulson wrote:

> On 19 October 2010 11:49, Andre <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote:
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> I was over simplifying sorry, the loop through is actually a linux stb, for reasons I won't go into on this list... The cards (Nova S+) are split but some of the older kworld and Tevii cards have loopthough.
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> OK..I currently have an ageing single backend PC with just one Nova-S2 and am most likely going to add a second when funds permit. The possibility of sharing a single LNB feed sounded interesting, but then I may just 'bite the bullet' and go crawling around in my underfloor space and run another cable over to my quad LNB which still has one port free.

If you have a free port it's not worth the hassle, you need a strong signal for it to work well. With a good splitter each card gets a third of the signal, by the time you add in the extra cables and dc blocker if that's separate a quarter strength would be the best you would get, PC sat cards often need a stronger signal than a decent STB.

The way I've done it you cannot ever tune those cards to any other muxes, they don't follow in step like Freesat or Sky box single feed mode. Only really useful if you have other feeds and cards for everything else. I'm sure someone with coding skills could produce a patch for such a mode but that won't be me.

To get more ports I need to pay our communal system installers £120 for another dual port feed so for me it's a cheap way to get good use out of cards that I thought were junk.



> I also have a Hauppauge DVB-T card (I forget the model) that is currently unused as we have no aerial, so while I'm down there in the dark and the dirt I may run yet another cable outside and get an aerial fitted.
> I record mostly SD but just the odd HD programme (we're not into 52" TVs!) to an external NAS disk.

SD channels are so overoverovercompressed now that HD on my old SD CRT still looks miles better but I'm a fussy b**** and used to seeing studio and outside broadcast truck output. ;-)


> If I ever get an opportunity to spend some more money I wand to build a 'decent' new backend server with multiple disks.
> Hope that's of interest!
> George
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