Digital Video

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Playing and recording video on your PC or TV

Free open source programs

MediaPortal

• MediaPortal ...the open source media center!
• MediaPortal Web Server and Interface - For use with MediaPortal TV Engine Version ONLY

Error installing MediaPortal on computers with VIA motherboard

If you receive errors like: Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition -- Error 29503. The SQL Server service failed to start. For more information, see the SQL Server Books Online topics, "How to: View SQL Server 2005 Setup Log Files" and "Starting SQL Server Manually." The error is (1067) The process terminated unexpectedly.

The description for Event ID ( 17311 ) in Source ( MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: c000001d.

It might be because your CPU don't support prefetching: The computer on which you try to install SQL Server Express or SQL Server Express with Advanced Services is equipped with a CPU that does not support cache prefetching. You can't install SQLExpress on CPUs including VIA Eden CPUs and Transmeta. Typically, these CPUs are used in devices when low power consumption, low heat, or low noise is important.

• Error message when you try to install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition or SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services: "Server SQL Server is terminating because of fatal exception c000001d"

XBMC - XBox Media Center

• XBMC Official homepage
• XBMC - Wikipedia

Nate's DigitalWatch DTV watching and recording program to for DVB-T

• DigitalWatch 2.x
• ScanChannelsBDA is a free open source console application for scanning DVB-T channels with BDA compatible digital tv tuners

VLC media player can play ANYTHING!

• VLC media player

XMLTV

• XMLTV in Denmark

Hardware for recording video

• SHS Unofficial WinTV-PVR & MediaMVP - Go here to get the newest drivers from Hauppauge
• Dreambox

Hardware for a HTPC - Home theater PC

• Motherboards ASUS Digital Home Series

Connectors and pinouts

• ePanorame.net's Video Connectors Page
• SCART - Wikipedia

Links about receiving, recording and editing TV from a PC

Forums tips and discussions

• DVB Owners Discussion Forum - dvbowners.com

Articles

• Computers, Video Files, and HDTV

DVD / DVB Subtitle format

• DVD Subtitles
• sup2vobsup - a program that transcodes IFO-edit subpicture files (.sup/.IFO) into VobSub-format (.sub/.idx).
• SubRip - converts .sub files to text (OCR) - Wikipedia
• SubRip source code (newest version) can be downloaded from here

TS Streams

• Encoding MediaPortal recordings from Freeview|HD into other formats
• Transport Stream Packet Editor
• Tutorial: Transport Stream Packet Editor - GUIDE TO TS PACKET EDITOR (TSPE)

Online Magazines

• Home Cinema Choice Online

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