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Saorview on my laptop.

  • 12-05-2011 7:03pm
    #1
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭


    I've heard that I can get Saorview on my laptop with a usb tv tuner, what exactly will I need? Does anyone know where I could get one? Amazon, eBay or a shop in Dublin would probably be easiest. I live in a very good signal area, I'm in the middle of a triangle of 3 antennas, each less than about 20km from me so I don't think ill need a big dish or anything.
    Thanks :)


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  • #2
    sink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭sink


    You're looking for a DVB-T tuner. Here's a few, never used one so can't comment on which would be best.

    http://www.dabs.ie/category/components-and-storage,graphics--tv-tuners-and-i-o,tv-tuners/11138-54030000-48710000


  • #3
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    Would any work once its MPEG4?


  • #4
    sink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭sink


    GarIT wrote: »
    Would any work once its MPEG4?

    Which video formats you can decode depends on the software you use and not the tuner, so yes any DVB-T tuner would do.


  • #5
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    This will work, yeah?


  • #6
    Amalgam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    H.264 support is needed, is it not?

    I am using a Hauppauge! WinTV Nova-T dongle myself, works fine, do an eBay search..

    There's a budget dongle featured in Bargain Alerts:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056076074

    (huge thread..)

    GarIT, pay a visit to the Terrestrial forum. It is a bit daunting at first (search is your friend..), but it is a treasure trove of information.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=56


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  • #7
    sink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭sink


    GarIT wrote: »
    This will work, yeah?

    It should do but i'm always wary of extremely cheap items like that, more often then not they break very quickly or have some other drawbacks.


  • #8
    sink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭sink


    Amalgam wrote: »
    H.264 support is needed, is it not?

    It's the software that does the video decoding not the tuner hardware so a DVB-T tuner can pick up any DVB-T signal regardless of what the video codec is, it's up to the software to decode it.

    Afaik H.264 is used only for HD channels of which Ireland has none, but if you're close to the border you might be able to pick up the UK ones.

    As HD channels require more bandwidth a DVB-T2 tuner would be required, but once again it's up to the software to decode the video stream.


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