Free HD TV?

"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
...


do such cards include the x264 decoding or does your pc have to do that
bit? - reason being x264 makes my 3ghz pc cry....

No hardware decoding 50-60% CPU utilisation on my AMD 3800 X2



i must be using an incredibly bad codec in that case - which one do you use?



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Gareth.
A french man who wanted a castle threw his cat into a pond.
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/dsbmusic/

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:51:52 +0100, "the dog from that film you saw"
wrote:


"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
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do such cards include the x264 decoding or does your pc have to do that
bit? - reason being x264 makes my 3ghz pc cry....

No hardware decoding 50-60% CPU utilisation on my AMD 3800 X2



i must be using an incredibly bad codec in that case - which one do you use?

CoreAVC

BTW That's 50-60% utilisation of both cores. My single core P4 3GHz is not up to
the job.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

"Nigel Barker" wrote in message Or if you buy a 50 quid
card for your PC you can watch the BBC HD
broadcasts for free.

Which £50 DSAT card do you recommend? - just in case I ever get a
sufficiently
powerful PC to cope with the decoding!

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:15:01 +0100, "Brian McIlwrath"
wrote:


"Nigel Barker" wrote in message Or if you buy a 50 quid
card for your PC you can watch the BBC HD
broadcasts for free.

Which £50 DSAT card do you recommend? - just in case I ever get a
sufficiently
powerful PC to cope with the decoding!

Technotrend Budget TT-1401S & actually rather less than 50 quid

http://www.dvbshop.net/product_info....K-XP-MCE-.html

You will also need CoreAVC the h.264 CODEC plus the excellent DVBViewer
application so budget another $19.95 for the former & 15 Euros for the latter.
DVBViewer is far & away the best application that I have found for FTA satellite
reception. You can do neat things like running client/server & broadcasting all
the channels on a transponder round your LAN. So with just one card you can
watch on different PCs BBC 1/2/3/4 & News 24 simultaneously!

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
...


i must be using an incredibly bad codec in that case - which one do you
use?

CoreAVC

BTW That's 50-60% utilisation of both cores. My single core P4 3GHz is not
up to
the job.





bah!
i'll have to wait for something to appear which supports the hardware
accelaration my graphics card has.



--
Gareth.
A french man who wanted a castle threw his cat into a pond.
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/dsbmusic/

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:31:54 GMT, Nigel Barker wrote:

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:15:01 +0100, "Brian McIlwrath"
wrote:


"Nigel Barker" wrote in message Or if you buy a 50 quid
card for your PC you can watch the BBC HD
broadcasts for free.

Which £50 DSAT card do you recommend? - just in case I ever get a
sufficiently
powerful PC to cope with the decoding!

Technotrend Budget TT-1401S & actually rather less than 50 quid

http://www.dvbshop.net/product_info....K-XP-MCE-.html

You will also need CoreAVC the h.264 CODEC plus the excellent DVBViewer
application so budget another $19.95 for the former & 15 Euros for the latter.
DVBViewer is far & away the best application that I have found for FTA satellite
reception. You can do neat things like running client/server & broadcasting all
the channels on a transponder round your LAN. So with just one card you can
watch on different PCs BBC 1/2/3/4 & News 24 simultaneously!

Has anyone managed to use a PC card to get HD signals outside of the
London trials and is this only via satellite?

Is there a way of linking the PC to a HDMI socket on a plasma
screen?

I've tried Googling and DigitalSpy Forums but can't find anything
coherent about the UK scene. Are there any guides anyone's found?

Cheers,
Mark,
M/cr

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"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
...

Which £50 DSAT card do you recommend? - just in case I ever get a
sufficiently
powerful PC to cope with the decoding!

Technotrend Budget TT-1401S & actually rather less than 50 quid

http://www.dvbshop.net/product_info....K-XP-MCE-.html

You will also need CoreAVC the h.264 CODEC plus the excellent DVBViewer
application so budget another $19.95 for the former & 15 Euros for the
latter.

Very many thanks for your most helpful reply!

Brian