Mpeg 2 tuner card. Can I useit for saorview?

jumbone

Is there any software mpeg4 decoders that would work with a hauppage her 1200

http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/products/data_hvr1200mckit.html

This is the card I think

Mr McBoatface

jumbone wrote: »

Is there any software mpeg4 decoders that would work with a hauppage her 1200

http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/products/data_hvr1200mckit.html

This is the card I think

Windows7 should work out of the box as it has a built in mpeg4 codec. Payware CoreAVC works very well but no hardware acceleration(DVXA) for ATI GPU's and I think Intel GPU's, Nvidia GPU's may support DVXA with coreavc. FFFmpeg tryouts freeware also works well and supports DVXA too.

I use PowerDVD10 which has a very nice codec built into you can use in other applications.

watty

Non-Win7
You need cuda based Nvidia GPU for CoreAVC or else 2.2GHz Dual Core Duo or 3.5GHZ P4 single core equivalent.
FFdshow, VLC etc are abysmal HD performance. Only really work on SD.
ATI cards ATI hardware GPU MPEG H.264 codec seems to crash if any signal errors.

If you have not bought a card, then the newer USB DTT sticks are better value. Same CPU overhead. €10 for single tuner. €29 for dual Tuner http://www.techtir.ie/reviews/mobidtv-dual-usb-dtt

The Hauppauge card linked will work, assuming you have suitable Graphics /GPU CPU etc

1920x 1080p 50Hz is best. The 576i SD can't be upscalled unless you have Progressive.

Obviously a HDMI out that did 576i or 1080i 25/50 depending on station is best as almost all decent HDTVs do upscaling etc better than PC,

See this thread yesterday 12th Dec 2011
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=70005878#post70005878


Win7 works out of the box. Only hardware and BDA driver needed. MHEG5 also.
IMO it's the sole redeeming feature of Win7. XP and Vista Media centers are rubbish in comparison. For every other aspect there is no reason to chose Win7 over XP

jumbone

I'd imagine the PC is powerful enough with these specs

Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
Hauppage HVR-1200 TV Tuner
Intel Core i7 870
ATI 5450 Fanless 1GB Video
2 x 4GB DDR3

At the moment I have no aerial for it and tried it with about 2 foot of coax ending in a female connector with a coat hanger jammed in it

It does get watchable but not perfect analogue TV3 and a not-quite as good TG4 but no watchable RTE signal. Would you say that proper rabbit ears or even one of those plug in aerials with the amplifier would allow me to get good quality analogue as well as all the channels on Saorview?

The computer is in an upstairs office in a semi-D in Newbridge, Co. Kildare if that would affect signal. AFAIK it comes from Kippure

watty

See
http://www.techtir.ie/radio-tv/uhf-aerials

You have to re-run the Media Center player wizard and select Digital TV

You won't need Analogue again, ever.

jumbone

watty wrote: »

See
http://www.techtir.ie/radio-tv/uhf-aerials

You have to re-run the Media Center player wizard and select Digital TV

You won't need Analogue again, ever.

are the rabbit ears with a loop uhf? They look a bit like this, have an amp with a dial for adjusting the aplification \o/

I suppose your right about analogue for the four channels. Still I would like the extra analogue channels from analogue UPC on the computer too. Thats what my other thread was about. You mentioned filters there, watty but my broadband is not cable i have adsl so i assume i can ignore that. Would black briars solution:

Black Briar wrote: »

simple.
Just get a distribution amplifier to feed the bedroom only and source the existing bedroom upc feed into it and saorview so as the new output from that is a new feed containing both of those to the bedroom only.
Nothing goes near the other tv points.

do the job so? if so can you give me an example of an amp with two inputs and one output that would be suitable. On as cheap a budget as possible. Thanks

watty

If you have UPC TV via cable the Broadband and Digital TV is on it anyway, even if not used. It will swamp out Aerial signals.

If it's MMDS then it might only have VHF.

In either case a VHF-UHF diplexer (looks like a splitter but marked VHF, UHF and Com) is the solution to combine feeds. About €6

mossym

watty wrote: »

XP and Vista Media centers are rubbish in comparison. For every other aspect there is no reason to chose Win7 over XP

just to add one more, the integrated backup/drive clone in Windows 7 is quite good(not referring to windows restore). if you go to the hassle of sorting out 900+ satellite channels, remapping epgs, setting up media browsers, skinning media center, getting all your libraries set up, adding flac and mkv support, setting up extenders...it's nice to be able to clone the drive so you can restore if anything goes wrong...