Anssi Hannula wrote: > Gavin Hamill wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 01:18:09PM +0100, Tomas Prybil wrote: >> >>> Happy Easter to all of You vdr listers! >>> >>> I'm looking for some recorded HDTV material to start the exploration >>> of HDTV. I currently doesn't own a budget card and as I understand >>> from reading not able to record the available streams. >> >> >> >> Hm, my own understanding of it was that you can certainly record HDTV >> streams from a FF card - after all it's just data at a high bitrate - >> but to actually replay, you will need a software decoder like vdr-xine >> or softdevice, because the FF cards are simply incapable of displaying >> HDTV resolutions / decoding MPEG2 that fast. > > > FF card doesn't have enough bandwidth for the HDTV, unless modded: > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_TT_Budget_Patch > > However, IIRC at least HD-1 is starting MPEG4 HDTV transmissions this > summer which probably require much lesser bandwidth. > OK, thanks for the info :) but again could someone provide some sort of demo material? /t
