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Old 05-05-2007, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by siliggy View Post
Thankyou for that info wejones. Seems TSREADER is the best way to go. Had heard of it before. Several of the Aussie sat fanatics have it. The blurb for that blind scanner did get my hopes up a bit. I already have a blind scanner that does the basic stuff (Manhattan ST120). Unfortunately this PC is a bit old n slow for that so It will wait untill the next PC upgrade. I have found some stuff by guessing and using incremental manual PID entering but it takes a very long time.
I think you can only get blind scanning with a set top box. The PCI cards apparently have tuners that aren't suitable for quick scanning. TSREADER needs you to know the freq and SR , but then it will show you all sorts of info about the streams. It doesn't play by itself, but can stream video to other programs or other hardware. I think that the Twinhan card only requires a 400 MHz computer to work with SD, and that should give all the speed that TSREADER would need, but to play 4.2.2 or HD, you'd need a faster computer.
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