> Is anyone yet capturing HD feeds via the new DirecTV HD20 > receivers (MPEG-4 satellites) and if yes, what capture > card/equipment are you using? The one most talked about > for HD is the pcHDx000 but I've seen several reports > explicitly stating it doesn't work with DirecTV's feeds. > Thanks.
US HD is natively MPEG2-TS at speeds of up to 20Mbits/sec. Anything you get from Satellite or cable is going to be re-encoded to a lower bit rate at the loss of some quality (MPEG4). The pcHDx000 cards capture true over the air (VHF/UHF) HD data in its native bit rate and codec, providing excellent quality, if you can get a good signal and have the hardware with enough umph to play it back. I use a pcHDTV2000 with an AMD64 3800+, a 64 bit gentoo OS, and a 64 bit mplayer with the experimental 60fps deinterlacing filter. It play it back over a PCI-E nvidia 6600GT card via DVI to a Sony HDTV. CPU pushes 60% in this configuration (I have 2 2.8 GHz P4 AGP systems that can't pull this off at all). I doubt there is any way to capture the pseudo-HD streams from satellite to a PC at this point without dropping it to another encoder card via S-Video, which defeats the purpose. There may be a solution using DVB hardware, but I am not aware of one. Rett ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
