Good PVR other than win-7 media center for DVB-T?

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rhysm

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#34070 17-May-2009 22:09

Hi

Got a WinTV Nova usb stick,windows 7 x64 and media center - works perfectly, TBH i'm quite impressed....

With my old analog tv card I could use virtualvcr and bolt up my own codecs for recording (divx/lame), has any one achieved a similar set up on win7/dvb-t?

I want something that I can play on VLC (ie. not .WTV) and i'd rather not run a post-conversion every time I record...

thanks

Rhys.

rhysb

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#215530 18-May-2009 09:29

No 7MC will only record to a WTV container. There is a new built-in converter called wtvconvert.exe that will convert the WTV container to a DVR-MS container, but this only works for MPEG2 streams not H.264. It is also accessible from the right-click context menus.

BTW welcome to geekzone. It's nice to see another Rhys around :-)

rhysm

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#215564 18-May-2009 11:35

rhysb: No 7MC will only record to a WTV container. There is a new built-in converter called wtvconvert.exe that will convert the WTV container to a DVR-MS container, but this only works for MPEG2 streams not H.264. It is also accessible from the right-click context menus.

BTW welcome to geekzone. It's nice to see another Rhys around :-)

Cheers - another Rhys that spells it properly!!

Yep I am quite impressed with win7MC for Live TV especially, and ease of use, but has anyone found another software package that gives you more flexibility with recording formats?

With the analog card I had Virtual VCR encoding Divx and MP3 on the fly, then VirtualDub for editing (*cough* removing ads *cough*)