It is going to be for a type of market research, the transcripts will be searched for various mentions of what could be a celebrity, brand, company name, news story etc. Therefore just text with timecode are necessary as they wont be remuxed. If the timing isn't way out that won't be a problem neither.
After looking at ProjectX and making an adjustment to the settings, it can make a srt file and convert from teletext to srt itself so the program I wrote isn't needed.
But even if the video and audio are also demuxed, I still cannot get it to align the timecodes correctly. It would of made it easier if it would correct the timecodes and make them start at the beginning of the programme rather than starting at zero for the beginning of the recording and counting up even when a new programme begins.
The thing is with freesat though is by looking at the channels available on each transponder, alot of the channels which are going to be important to me are on differnet transponders, whereas in freeview a lot a multiplexed together very convienently so I will almost definately still use the script to OCR the subs on those.
I don't really understand what you mean about using the script to OCR. Are you talking about using Freeview?
How many PC's do you intend using? You could probably run 2 or 3 dual tuner cards per PC. With a Satellite dish with a Octo LNB that would allow 4 cards to be run off it.
Sky sports 1,2,3 are all on the same transponder however and this would be useful. But then, they are encrypted
. Still as jenrow said the daiblo card might be a decent bet, but with that will i be able to record for example, skysports 1, 2 and 3 all on same tuner (when needed)?
That's a good question and one which I cannot answer. I don't know how Sky sells their packages so it's difficult for me to say whether one CAM would decode a whole transponder or whether it can only decode one programme/channel. If you can have Skysports 1 without 2 or 3 then it might only decode one channel at a time.
The Mystique/Mediapointer cards did have some feature with their cards which was "supposed" to allow decoding more than one channel per Cam but I have to take whatever they say with a pinch of salt because most of it doesn't work.
The timing problems with the Mystique/Mediapointer cards was meant to be with the latest Intel Chipsets I believe, older chipsets such as Core 2 were meant to be okay. But that doesn't mean that there won't be other problems. The last thing you need is to be spending time diagnosing BSOD's and none functioning tuners because it's not good for the hair....tearing it all out in frustration.
Oh yeah, the TBS looks good btw, you reckon I should go for this one for freesat?
PCI-E DVB-S2 Dual Tuner TV card [TBS6981] - US$158.99 : BuyDVB Online Store
also sorry about all the spelling and grammar mistakes, looks as if i've suddenly become illiterate. :0
If I was you I would shoot them an email and ask about the new cards and when they expect them to become available. Mention that you need them for the work you intend doing and say you need a number of cards to complete what your doing. But it looks like you would have to purchase separate Cams for each tuner which would add to the cost.
Remember that if buying from the US that you will probably have to pay VAT and duty.
mr fantastic,,,can you upload your old driver for the satix dual card...the one that shows the signal levels......i have been trying every new driver since that one and there all crap.....please...
daveyboyc im very tempted to give the tbs card a try..cant be any worse that the satix..
I'm using driver 1.0.1.9 which was the last one which provided linear quality reporting. It will only work with the first V1 card so are you certain it will work on yours? If so I can upload it for you. I have a fairly basic setup with nothing special, no DiSEqC or anything ATM. I have been wanting to fit a new dish which would make 2 dishes and I think I might be asking for problems trying to use both and selecting between them with the Mystique card.
3) If you record Freesat HD stuff, like BBCHD, can you only play the content on that PC or could you watch on a second PC?
To expand upon Stiggy's reply, yes you can, there are no problems with BBCHD with regard to playing it back because the BBC are not currently allowed to encrypt their channels. You can record it without a problem.