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<blockquote data-quote="funkstar" data-source="post: 91215" data-attributes="member: 14311">Technical explination:Freeview is the branding for the UK Free-To-Air DTV line up.The DTV (Digital Television) system in the UK uses DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcast - Terrestrial) standard. These cards are usually a lot cheaper than proper hardware capture cards as they actually do very little work. As the video and audio are already in a digital format, all the card needs to do is tun to the correct frequency (an old fasioned analogue channel, called a Multiplex or Mux) and send the digital stream to the drivers. They then pass it onto the TV software (in this case MediaPortal) to do with it what they like.Usually the entire Mux is sent from the card and the correct TV or radio station is seperated out of the TS (Transport Stream) by the player software. If you are only recording a channel and not playing it, it is possible to do this on very modest hardware. I've heard of someone using a P133 under Linux who was able to record DVB-T channels without issue using a stripped down OS and tools.true hardware cards on the other hand take an analogue signal (either from a composite, svideo or tuner) and encode to MPEG-2 (or sometimes MPEG-4) using dedicated hardware on the card and send this to the host system. These cards are popular with people that are using satelite or cable STBs that can't be controlled directly through MediaPortal. It releaves a lot of load from the system, although with modern dual core processors that isn't so much of an issue.hope this is useful to you <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="funkstar, post: 91215, member: 14311"] Technical explination: Freeview is the branding for the UK Free-To-Air DTV line up. The DTV (Digital Television) system in the UK uses DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcast - Terrestrial) standard. These cards are usually a lot cheaper than proper hardware capture cards as they actually do very little work. As the video and audio are already in a digital format, all the card needs to do is tun to the correct frequency (an old fasioned analogue channel, called a Multiplex or Mux) and send the digital stream to the drivers. They then pass it onto the TV software (in this case MediaPortal) to do with it what they like. Usually the entire Mux is sent from the card and the correct TV or radio station is seperated out of the TS (Transport Stream) by the player software. If you are only recording a channel and not playing it, it is possible to do this on very modest hardware. I've heard of someone using a P133 under Linux who was able to record DVB-T channels without issue using a stripped down OS and tools. true hardware cards on the other hand take an analogue signal (either from a composite, svideo or tuner) and encode to MPEG-2 (or sometimes MPEG-4) using dedicated hardware on the card and send this to the host system. These cards are popular with people that are using satelite or cable STBs that can't be controlled directly through MediaPortal. It releaves a lot of load from the system, although with modern dual core processors that isn't so much of an issue. hope this is useful to you :) [/QUOTE]

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