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MPEG-4 support for DVB card?

  • 29-06-2006 9:19pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm not sure if this is the right forum to be posting on (or whether it should be a computing topic)...

    My Pinnacle PCTV Sat PCI card can't pick up an MPEG-4 or DVB-S2 signal. Understandable since its software is old. But is there any way I could get it to work? It can pick up MPEG-2 HD.


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  • #2
    Zaphod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,733 ✭✭✭Zaphod


    It's irrelevant to the card if you are watching an mpeg2/4 SD/HD channel - all the processing is done by the CPU or GPU. The card is DVB-S so can't view DVB-S2 channels.

    There are some limited MPEG2 HD DVB-S promos being transmitted:
    http://en.kingofsat.net/hdtv.php

    The BBC MPEG4 HD stream is still in DVB-S, so with enough processing power (~3GHz) and suitable codecs (coreavc or powerdvd7) and viewer (DVBdream) your card is usable.

    DVBdream is not freeware.
    http://www.dvbdream.org/

    DVBviewer GE (doesn't support pinnacle anyways) isn't free either. However there is an unofficial HD version of ProgDVB knocking around which is free and might be worth trying out.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Thanks for that. I'd assume DVB-S2 is a hardware implementation then?


  • #4
    Zaphod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,733 ✭✭✭Zaphod


    Yes.

    http://bytelive.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=PC+Satellite+Cards


  • #5
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Karsini wrote:
    I'm not sure if this is the right forum to be posting on (or whether it should be a computing topic)...

    My Pinnacle PCTV Sat PCI card can't pick up an MPEG-4 or DVB-S2 signal. Understandable since its software is old. But is there any way I could get it to work? It can pick up MPEG-2 HD.

    New DVBs2 sat card and at least X1600 graphics or similar/better and 3GHz Pentium / 3500+ AMD or better.

    On a souped up 2.4GHz Celeron the MPEG2 HD demos barely run. Unusable.


    Excellent updat on the Wiki!!


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