NVidia have announce a new API for hardware accelerated decode of video on Linux and Unix called VDPAU. This is awesome news for the Linux MythTV and Video community as the partial subset of NVidia’s PureVideo functionality provides a dramatic drop in CPU usage when handling complex video codecs like H.264 and VC1. Linux and [...]
This is a follow up on my previous attempts to get the Em2880 based Hauppauge HVR-900 USB tuner working. First a word of warning. There appears to be a new model of the HVR-900 labeled the HVR-900H. This is a new hardware revision and uses a totally different chipset, and as such won’t work with [...]
At present scan from dvb-apps doesn’t support the DVB-T test multiplexes currently running in NZ because it doesn’t recognise H.264 as a valid video stream. The recent switch of the TVNZ DTT Mux to AAC based audio has complicated matters further as these are also not recognised. We aren’t alone in NZ with these issues. [...]
It certainly looks like they are planning on making DTT services here in NZ very interesting from a technical perspective. On Friday the TVNZ Multiplex refreshed with some major changes. Rather than using MP2 audio streams they switched to AAC audio. This means that they can use a much lower bitrate for around the same [...]
The Auckland DTT (Digital Terrestrial TV) Tests fired up over the weekend. The Waiatarua transmission is currently showing 14 active services, although some have duplicate video streams Linux users can either use the tool w_scan to perform a full UHF scan for potential DVB streams, or the following to perform a quick channel scan with [...]
