[nzlug] Specs for Laptop as Home Theatre

[Hadley Rich]

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 17:23:10 Alex Thomson wrote:
>  I don't think there are linux friendly TV cards (let alone
> external cards) that support the mpeg4 over DVB-T Freeview that we have
> here in NZ (happy to be proven wrong here!)

Just a clarification here; DVB cards are pretty simple devices, they basically 
just pass the broadcast stream on to disk or the program that requested it.

This means that it's not up to the card to support MPEG4/H264/AAC/whatever but 
it's up to the software on the host. Therefore any card with decent Linux 
drivers is fine.

Unfortunately this doesn't mean that Linux can happily decode the FreeviewHD 
broadcast here yet. The software/libraries to do so are still catching up to 
the format they are using.

hads
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