Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

[Erez D]

On 2012 1 12 14:37, "Udi Finkelstein" <Linux-IL at udif.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:35 PM, geoffrey mendelson <
geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> as for a PCI card - i don't have an idea, but note one thing: the
government made a decision to use a different type of broadcast in their
future HD broadcasts, then the one originally assumed - check this before
you buy any DVB-T equipment.
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>> Do you have any information about this? All I can find is that the
number of channels was to be expanded from 5 to 12 and then a few weeks
later the expansion was to be to 18.
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> The decision was to use the new DVB-T2 standard for future HD broadcasts,
(I assume they will keep the current SD broadcasts on the existing DVB-T
channel).
> DVB-T2 uses a different encoding than DVB-T yielding about 30% higher
bitrate for the same bandwidth, or so are the claims.
> This is very similar to the DVB-S vs DVB-S2 migration.
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The difference between dvb-s and s2 are big. A dvb-s pci card would not
support s2. However what done in Israel on dvb-t was To take the same
protocol and just replace the mpeg2 with h264. So it is possible that A
regular dvb-t card will support the Israeli broadcasts. (Still need to
verify)

> As for MythTV for DVB-T on linux, try searching the www.hometheater.co.ilforums. I think there are people doing that there.
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