Posted by Kat Crichton Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:19:00 GMT

Got an ariel guy to come and fit a decent wideband ariel, which made all the difference. MythTV automatically scanned for and found loads of free TV channels - Woo!

Now I can do picture in picture as well as recording 2 channels at once or watching one channel while recording another.

It's not quite clear how it chooses which tuner to use and the <C> key doesn't switch between them as I expected it to.

It's still way cool though and the quality of the freeview programs is substantially better. The tuner card just saves the demultiplexed MPEG stream straight to the hard disk rather than reencoding the video that's already been decoded by the NTL Cable box.

The only other problem so far is that I can't play back the Freeview video files on a PC using MythTV Filters. Guess I'll have to do a little codec research.