Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Jan 12, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Erez D wrote:

>
> 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)
>

Thanks,

That's a codec issue. The DVB-T signal still remains the same. The  
data streams (MPEG-TS) still are the same with different video encoding.

This is not unusual, the original DVB-T transmissions, long ago, far,  
far away, were MPEG-2 encoded. Israel was one of the first, if not the  
first, country to adopt MPEG-4 encoding and definitely the first to  
use AAC (MPEG-4) audio encoding.

How that will affect the first generation Israeli DVB-T box I have is  
a question for speculation at this point. What it does mean is that a  
PC using a DVB-T tuner/dongle will not be able to decode the new  
channels without a better CPU than the minimum needed now.

Geoff.


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