Does Me-TV support MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 encoding?

Hi...

I've always been a firm believer of using hardware to do the work! so
you would be best to purchase yourself the MPEG-4 decoder however, make
sure that the DVB-T device you purchase is compatible with Linux! for
more details on this you may wish to have a look at the following
website for some guidance...
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (there is a lot of
information on this wiki!) and also Me TV is just the GUI front-end
viewer application, the decoding is done by your DVB-T/C/S/ATSC device!
I also think that it would be unlikely that you would be able to decode
a MPEG-4 stream using a MPEG-2 device?

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 06:33 +0000, Matej Kovacic wrote:

> New question #76468 on Me TV:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/me-tv/+question/76468
>
> I live in Slovenia and we will have DVB-T encoded in MPEG-4, while our neighbour countries use MPEG-2 encoding. I do not have DVB-T card yet, but does Me-TV support MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 encoding? The problem is however, that in our county there are MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 DVB cards. Since decoding is done in a computer, I can buy MPEG-2 DVB card and just let the computer do the MPEG-4 decoding...
>
> I was looking at settings and was unable to find any setting to set MPEG-2 or MPEG-4. Does Me-TV autodetect this?
>
> P. S. I am writing a handbook about Ubuntu in slovenian language and need this information for a book.
>
> Thank you for your answer in advance.
>

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Thanks for quick answer. I got information from our regulatory officials, that you can use MPEG-2 device and just let VLC to decode the stream. It seems that encoding is done with enclosed software (in Windows).

Just another question - is there planned support for teletext?

If I'm not mistaken, Me TV sets up the PIDs for TT so that any TT viewing application can read from your demux device. I've never tested this, it's not available where I live.