Digital Freeview TV

[ecruos]

I have been looking at the following freeview cards:

Nebula DigiTV
and
WinTV Nova-T

I understand that although these cards capture a digital MPEG2 signal and can record it to disk, GB-PVR does not support them.  What is required to allow GB-PVR to cope with them?

Ecruos

[sub]

What is required? Probably not much.

Does anyone know what to of MPEG2 stream these capture, Program Stream or Transport Stream? If it produces a program stream, its likely to be relatively easy to get going, assuming that directshow components exist for these devices.

[JetJackson]

I have the nova-T, how can I tell which stream?

[sub]

You might need to hunt for a utility that provides details on mpeg files. I dont know the name of one off hand.

[sub]

I'm fairly sure there would be a utility on http://www.divx-digest.com/software/index3.html or one of their software pages to provide details about an MPEG2 file.

[bitter_old_man]

One of the ones I use is MpegAn (with MpegAn GUI). They can be found here. I don't know if it handles transport streams or not. Be sure to get the GUI if you download it.

Barry

[sub]

Quote[/b] (bitter_old_man @ May 26 2004,01:51)]One of the ones I use is MpegAn (with MpegAn GUI). They can be found here. I don't know if it handles transport streams or not. Be sure to get the GUI if you download it.

That looks like a pretty useful tool.

[JetJackson]

I'll havea look at some of my recorded files later when I get home...

[bitter_old_man]

If you use MpegAn withou the GUI, you get LOTS of information. For that kind of detail, I like bbtools.

Barry

[dito]

For WinTV Nova-T have a look at the SDK over at http://www.dvbcore.com if you make support for this do it as a freeware (open source? Yes, please! or you will have to pay licence fee...

Best regards!