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Forums › Freeview (DVB-T/DVB-S) › Dual Pinnacle PCTV? nanoStick's under Vista Media Centre in HTPC for Freeview
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#20957 11-Apr-2008 03:08
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Hi all

Reading the specs it looks like this USB tuner may work with NZ freeview, but considering I'm in Spain at the moment I can't test it. It lists MPEG-4 and H.264. Has anyone tried it? Are all channels available?

I was hoping to be able to use a couple of these for my HTPC under Vista Media Centre.

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/uk/Products/Consumer+Products/PCTV+Tuners/PCTV+Digital+PVR+%28DVB-S_DVB-T%29/PCTVnanoStick+Documents/Technical+Specifications/TechnicalsSpecificationsNano.htm

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Jon

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  #122732 11-Apr-2008 06:19
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It will not currently work. Vista Media Center does not presently support H.264 DVB-T transmissions regardless of the TV card you use. It should do in the future when the long overdue Vista Media Center update becomes available.

Virtually any DVB-T card will deliver you H.264 DVB-T support as it's the PC that does all the work, not the TV card. It just feeds the PC a DVB video stream and it's up to the PC to do the decoding of the MPEG2 or MPEG4 video stream. There are other TV applications such as GB-PVR, Media Portal, and DVBViewer that all work well.

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