Tony_Park:Hi Tiger,
you don't actually need to go the FloppyDTV route, you can capture the signal using an analogue capture card, but the picture/sound quality is no where near as good as using these bits of hardware - however the cost is a lot more for the floppydtv!
I used to use the 150MCE, however since moving to floppydtv, I've not looked back...
Also, the analog route with STB would work better in the TVPack software, as the channel info in the EPG is not available via any other means currently.
Tony
Hi Tony, thx for the reply m8, but when i invested in a native 1080p screen i didnt want analogue capture card res as it looks like a BBC model B resolution on a huge plasma. I also have a 7.1 THX system so crappy pic n crappy sound is a no go.
i found early on that sky tv n scart was a no go unless u have a little telly the size of a small satsuma.
if ur gonna invest in a media center to do it, then thru trial and error of many different ways and missed expections, then IMO this is the best way for UK Sky TV Subs for now...
regarding the EPG and TVPack 2008.. i reverted immediately to a backup and removed it. it didnt show any listings for any shows that were not current T + 1 hour. it trashed some of the other nice features also but most worst of all... despite having some gaps in EPG listsings using standard VMC b4, it was worse. I did try XML TV experiments also but too many are in their infancy. However, i will try these again in a couple of months time as one or two seemed very good, but trashed something else :S I'll wait til MS sort out the US release of TVpack and hopefully with h.264 support which they sneaked out with the final release..
For now... I can live without listings for babestation and JML etc and who the hell needs BBC HD..? i mean I pay for it already through my license and i cant even see it? criminal, but BBC is so downgraded to an anti-western, anti-european, anti-american propaganda station that who cares now anyway? apart from apologists and terrorists.. who really cares anyway?.. really you should be ashamed your british... i hope the ministry of propaganda crashes and burns into commercial advertising reality and the unseen, unelected, anti-western news editors and spineless controller gets extracated to guantanamo for political questioning.. and we should all be sorry for what we did or many generations of our ancestors did sumtime or another..
... back on topic here... but what was cool about TV Pack 2008 was it sorted out the sound for all other MTV channels which had no sound before and other channels that multi channel audio but was mute due to mce issue. TBH, i can wait for this fix to be proper as the pain is worth more than the gain for now. lets wait for the official endorsed update unless it solves more problems than inroduces for u ;-)
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