On Jan 12, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Erez D wrote:
The difference between dvb-s and s2 are big. A dvb-s pci card would
not support s2. However what done in Israel on dvb-t was To take the
same protocol and just replace the mpeg2 with h264. So it is
possible that A regular dvb-t card will support the Israeli
broadcasts. (Still need to verify)
Thanks,
That's a codec issue. The DVB-T signal still remains the same. The
data streams (MPEG-TS) still are the same with different video encoding.
This is not unusual, the original DVB-T transmissions, long ago, far,
far away, were MPEG-2 encoded. Israel was one of the first, if not the
first, country to adopt MPEG-4 encoding and definitely the first to
use AAC (MPEG-4) audio encoding.
How that will affect the first generation Israeli DVB-T box I have is
a question for speculation at this point. What it does mean is that a
PC using a DVB-T tuner/dongle will not be able to decode the new
channels without a better CPU than the minimum needed now.
Geoff.
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