NZ setup advice wanted

[Alfiegerner]

Hello all,

I'm an old time sage user in a lovely new country.

I'm currently living in Auckland and was wondering if someone could offer some advice in the basics of a working freeview DVB-T HD setup.

-- what do you do for EPG? I was thinking of using xmltv (http://xmltv.co.nz/) and then importing with Stephane's xmltv importer.
-- recomendations for working usb dvb-t hd tuners would be welcome. Hauppauge Nova?

Any advice or comments welcome.

Cheers,
Alex

[zzmystique]

Hello all,

I'm an old time sage user in a lovely new country.

I'm currently living in Auckland and was wondering if someone could offer some advice in the basics of a working freeview DVB-T HD setup.

Welcome to NZ

I use PCI / PCI-e not USB dvb-t tuners, the hauppauge nova-t 500 and a hvr2200, both work fairly well now.


-- what do you do for EPG? I was thinking of using xmltv (http://xmltv.co.nz/) and then importing with Stephane's xmltv importer.


Try xmltvnz (http://www.reven.co.nz/) for EPG.

Anne

[Alfiegerner]

Thanks Anne.

I'm a little confused on the dvb-t situation out here. I see a lot of places advertising the dual tuner hauppauge novas as HD, even though they say they are mpeg 2 rather than mpeg 4 compliant.

What i'd really like is a usb freeview HD dual tuner and I'm wondering if i can use this one (http://computersandparts.co.nz/product/Hauppuage-WinTV-NOVA-TD-Stick-DVB-T-Freeview/124787/) to get HD content? If not I guess I'll need two of these (http://computersandparts.co.nz/product/Hauppague-WinTV-MiniStick-HD-Digital-Terrestial/126123/)instead?

TIA for any help.

Alex

[zzmystique]

Thanks Anne.

I'm a little confused on the dvb-t situation out here. I see a lot of places advertising the dual tuner hauppauge novas as HD, even though they say they are mpeg 2 rather than mpeg 4 compliant.

What i'd really like is a usb freeview HD dual tuner and I'm wondering if i can use this one (http://computersandparts.co.nz/product/Hauppuage-WinTV-NOVA-TD-Stick-DVB-T-Freeview/124787/) to get HD content? If not I guess I'll need two of these (http://computersandparts.co.nz/product/Hauppague-WinTV-MiniStick-HD-Digital-Terrestial/126123/)instead?

TIA for any help.

Alex

Hi Alex

I have always avoid USB devices because I used to have a problem where windows XP would drop the device and when it came back the device was unrecognised, I had to reboot the PC to get it to work again. Not sure if that was a common experience, but it put me off.

I got my hvr2200 and nova-t 500 HD from hvr220 (http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/components/componentview.asp?partid=6358) and nova-t hd 500 (http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/components/componentview.asp?partid=9255) the recordings are mpeg4 (h2.64 & LM-AAC).

I also use 2 x dvb-s and dvbe4sage (http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthread.php?p=325237&postcount=12) - which enable me to add multiple virtual tuners to sage.

Anne

[Alfiegerner]

Thanks Anne, I think I'll go the PCI route after all. Thanks for the advice.