[mythtv-users] Freesat

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Steve Hill <steve at nexusuk.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> There are very skight differences between the DVB-S and DVB-T freeview
>> offereings, but  not much.
>
> Myth's MHEG5 decoding isn't yet usable on the DVB-S streams broadcast by
> FreeSat.  Also, you need the SVN trunk to get at the programme guide data.
> (However, the SVN trunk is extremely unstable for me at the moment).
> Other than that, DVB-S is fine.
>
>> with mythtv you can record as many  channels as there are  on a
>> multiplex from one card. There are two satellite multiplexes  so with
>> two cards you could record every freeview channel at once.
>
> This is completely untrue I'm afraid - there are probably over 100
> multiplexes being broadcast from the 28.2E/28.5E cluster.

Yes sorry, see my message later in this thread. My brain was broken. I
thought I was discussing freeview in New Zealand (because I mistook
the mailing list I was on).