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windows 7 MCE

The other day I installed Windows 7 RC 64bit onto a spare PC , and plugged in my Dazzle/Pinnacle USB hybrid DTV stick (330e). Windows installed the drivers itself, and following the tuning menu in MCE, it found the Irish DVB-T ( DTT trial) broadcast. When I tried to play it on the PC, it complained about codecs and wouldn't display. I added my xbox360 as a media extender, and it played the channels fine via MCE ! ( the dvb-t here is h.264 ). Next I added a PCI satellite card ( nova-s-plus ), pointing at astra 2D. It found channels such as BBC1 etc, and BBCHD. These all played fine on the 360 too ! Next I tried some divx and xvid via MCE (not via upnp or media player) , these were fine. Lastly I tried some MPEG-TS files in HD , these were not fine. HDTVpump didn't make and difference. They would think they were playing, but I got no audio or video on my 360. They played fine on the PC. I tried it on a macbookpro core duo, and they played on the 360 then. It appears MCE i

MythTV and DVB-T settings

To receive the DVB-T stations in Ireland, I used Full Scan (Tuned) with these settings Freq. 738000000 Band. 8Mhz Inversion. Auto Constellation QAM 64 LP Coderate 1/2 HP Coderate 2/3 Trans. Mode 8k Guard Interval 1/32 Hierarchy None