DivX playback on DVB-s card

[yuinfo]

Am I missing something, or there are no Windows drivers to play divx/xvid on dvb-s composite output? There are some Linux solutions but I can't find anything like it for Windows.

[eb]

@yuinfo,

If you mean dvb-s as satelite cards there is program SkyView by marfi for SS2 cards that can record on fly to as .avi .divx .mp3 .wave files .
But SS2 cards have no video output.
For another cards with video outputs /having very powerful PC/
you can try to use GrafEdit to build graf from direct show filters that can accomplish your task.

eb

[stax76]

the card you are talking about is the old SkyStar 1, I don't think this option is available on windows

[dss902]

Hey,

I have been reencoding my divx/xvid in TMPGEnc to svcd. That works but takes time. I am using an Nexus-s DVB card with progdvb.

[yuinfo]

@eb

Sorry for the late reply:
Recording and converting to divx/xvid is easy, playout is the problem.

I think I've tried Graphedit, but no luck. The Dvb-s cards I'm talking about are Technotrend based cards (Hauppauge, etc) with video and audio out connectors.

I still can't find no Windows solution for that task

[eb]

@yuinfo,

I am not sure that i can follow you totaly, but...
Try to instal MyTheatre 2.76, it has best playback possibilities from all known to me sat card programs

eb

[yuinfo]

@eb

I'll try to explain this way: I want to play non-MPEG2 content (no pva's, no mpg's, no m2v's, just divx.avi) on DVB-s video output. It's posibble on Linux. Can MyTheatre do that?

[stax76]

the problem is the hardware don't allow this, Linux uses a hack wich converts the MPEG4 on the fly to MPEG2 with a lost of quality and a lot CPU time. SkyStar 1 is one of the oldest cards if not the oldest, probably more than 8 years old. I would rather buy a SkyStar 2 and a video card with TV out, check out this topic: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71863

[yuinfo]

Thanks Dolemite, at least I know I can stop looking. DVB's composite out is so much better than any regular AGP card's composite out I've ever saw, but it will have to do.

[hms]

I have the same card.
As I understand it the hardware decoder is mpeg2 only.
I do not know whether this limitation is a matter of hardware only or a function of the drivers.
But whatever software you are using they all have to utilize the technotrend drivers.
I have been told that the decoding chip is inherently capable of high definition mpeg2 but the appropropriate drivers have not been made available yet.

[[_chéf_]]

Same here. Queue in what hms wrote.