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DVB TV Tuner, hardware decoder and SVideo In
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ajbaker
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May 24, 2006, 09:14 AM
 
I have recently been investigating the variety of TV tuners + PVR that are available for my MacBook Pro. (If I find something with all of the functions below I may consider a Mac Mini in the living room!)

I have decided that I need a DVB TV tuner (for Freeview TV in the UK), SVideo input (to convert some of my VHS videos) and would also like a built in hardware en/decoder so that I can continue to work on my Mac. Obviously I would like to be able to record to the hard disk.

However I have not been able to find anything with these 3 features combined. I cannot think of the reason for this. Does anything exist?

Also, most of the software solutions out there enable you to stream the recorded video to another Mac, but is there anything that will enable streaming of live TV? EyeTV does not seem to allow this - am I wrong?

Finally I would like to use EyeTV as the software to control the device but am certainly willing to consider alternatives if required.
     
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May 25, 2006, 05:28 AM
 
The closest you'll find is the Cinergy Hybrid
(http://tven.terratec.net/modules.php...le&sid=236)
It has analogue and digital tuners.
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ajbaker  (op)
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May 25, 2006, 06:51 AM
 
Thanks for the thought.

After doing a little more research I would like to clarify a few things... Since DVB (Freeview) is broadcast as MPEG2, presumably there is no need to encode this to a different format just to save and view from hard drive. Threfore I would have no need for a hardware encoder. I could survive letting the Mac handle the encoding of analogue video since this would be a limited number of VHS tapes.

The terratec device looks very reasonable and capable but does not have any composite inputs. This is what I was trying to say above - instead I stupidly said SVideo. My apologies.

Therefore I am looking for a DVB tuner with composite inputs also. Terratec comes close but not quite.
     
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May 25, 2006, 10:07 AM
 
Yeah - you don't really need hardware encoding with DVB, as you say - it's all MPEG2 (or MPEG-4 H.264 for the HD trial they are running in London)

It has composite in:

http://tven.terratec.net/modules.php...&artid=410
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