[mythtv-users] HD PVR 2 and mythtv

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:50:15 +0100, you wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Mike Carron <jmcarron at gmx.com> wrote:
>

>It seems most the newer hdmi modulators in the UK that do HD are DVB-T2 and
>therefore encode to mpeg4 and need a dvb-t2 freeview hd tv to view.

"And therefore encode to mpeg4" - the encoding and the DVB-T or T2
standard are not bound together like that.  H.264 encoding is used on
DVB-T in a number of places (eg here in New Zealand).  The reason for
using DVB-T2 is to fit more data into the same channel space, in order
to have more HD channels, so DVB-T2 channels are normally H.264
encoded as that helps greatly with putting out a good HD picture.  But
I believe you can broadcast MPEG2 video on a DVB-T2 channel if you
want to (who would?).  So any modulator that fully supports DVB-T
really should be able to use H.264 encoding over it, and you should
choose to use H.264 encoding whenever possible as it is better in
almost every way in preserving the picture quality, even if your local
TV standard is to use MPEG2 video over DVB-T.