I have some basic questions concerning getting freeview HD on my PC. I have picked up some ideas from these forums but need a simple guide to get my mind straight.
I think I have the gear needed
Roof top UHF aerial
Hauppauge hrv-1200 card
Intel Q9400 quad processor
Dual 9800GT video cards
4Gb ram
Vista home premium
Media Center will tune the analogue VHF channels but as expected will not tune the digital freeview channels.
Hauppauge WinTV will tune all of the freeview channels, no problem. But when I go to one of those channels I get no picture or sound.
As I understand from the forums I need to install either the H.264 codec (for WinTV?), or a player, or both. Do I have that correctly.
What players or codec options do I have.
I do have Nero which comes with an H.264 codec but I think that this is propriety to Nero and other applications may have issues using it.
Can you add a mpeg4 codec to Windows Media Play and watch TV using that, or do you need a player specificly designed for TV.
Cheers