"Rob" wrote in message
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"MikeRead" wrote in message
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Can a BBC 1 program for example BBC 1 breakfast news be recorded to PC
hard
drive via a PC freesat decoder card and then edited directly by for
example
pinnacle video editing application.

Assuming you use a card like the Hauppauge WinTV Nova-HD-S2 (but,
preferably with 3rd party software, such as AltDVB(free) or DVBviewer),
the answer is yes. Your video editor will need to support MPEG-2 files.
Cut-only editing is probably all you need.
As others have noted, 'freesat' is simply the EPG and any DVB-S card
will receive the full range of British FTA channels available on 28E. The
HD-S2 card I mentioned will also allow you to receive FTA foreign channels
which use the new DVB-S2 standard, too.
See the tools and guides sections at videohelp.com for more info.
HTH,
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Rob


Thanks for everybody's contribution. I have checked out the Hauppauge WinTV
Nova-HD-S2 card and see that it specifies a CPU of 3.2ghz P4. My CPU is a
2.8ghz Intel Dual processor, if the WINT TV software is single threaded
then I assume that my CPU will not be fast enough. I believe the card
supports DVB S. Does the sat dish fixed on a given satellite provide a
spectrum of TV channels some of which are DVB-S and some DVB-S2 and so it is
the channel which is tuned into that determines the encoding and thereby the
CPU decoding power required.


thanks

Mike