As the name of the blog says for itself, I'll try to share all of my knowledge with the world, but also I'll try to be also - me: thirsty and hungry for more and more knowledge. Subject? I don't have any ideas or only one direction, it will be covered from all areas of our lives, so..
Let's begin today with the last thing I needed to know and succeeded to solve. It's about Croatian digital TV on your own computer but it could be used for any other country.
For start we need couple of things to know. DVB-T TV stands Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial, as the words says for itself, broadcasting of TV signal with digital technic. That system (should be) is much more resistant to effects of disturbing signals then analog one and the quality is much more greater. Also, that signal can carry more informations, like EPG (program search), multichannel sounds, interactivity, coding, PayTV options, HDTV and more. For now, you only need to know that simple things so you will understand our story we will learn today.
It would be much easier for me to write in Croatian language, as I'm not familiar with English so well, but I think that there are also people from all around the world that could use this information for themselves.
Things we need:
1. Computer with Windows 7 or 8 (It should be the same for both OS),
2. USB DVB-T TV dongle which you can buy for about 15$ (~100 croatian kn),
3. VLC media player - the most powerful multimedia application that plays really anything you want,
4. Internet connection for some info we will need.
So, if you have all of this we can go to next process.
You do have Windows 7/8 and USB DVB-T TV dongle. Those usb sticks look like this one:
Let's begin today with the last thing I needed to know and succeeded to solve. It's about Croatian digital TV on your own computer but it could be used for any other country.
DVB-T TV - watch it on your Windows 7/8 OS with VLC multimedia player and DVB-T TV USB stick
For start we need couple of things to know. DVB-T TV stands Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial, as the words says for itself, broadcasting of TV signal with digital technic. That system (should be) is much more resistant to effects of disturbing signals then analog one and the quality is much more greater. Also, that signal can carry more informations, like EPG (program search), multichannel sounds, interactivity, coding, PayTV options, HDTV and more. For now, you only need to know that simple things so you will understand our story we will learn today.
It would be much easier for me to write in Croatian language, as I'm not familiar with English so well, but I think that there are also people from all around the world that could use this information for themselves.
Things we need:
1. Computer with Windows 7 or 8 (It should be the same for both OS),
2. USB DVB-T TV dongle which you can buy for about 15$ (~100 croatian kn),
3. VLC media player - the most powerful multimedia application that plays really anything you want,
4. Internet connection for some info we will need.
So, if you have all of this we can go to next process.
You do have Windows 7/8 and USB DVB-T TV dongle. Those usb sticks look like this one:
Also, some of them have their own application for playback, but in many cases those applications are made in hurry(make your own point), so will you use Windows Media Center or VLC, it's your choice. Anyway, some USB dongles has small connector for antenna (as on the picture), but many of them give you additional adapter jack extension for external antenna like this one:
Ok, let us assume it's all connected with external antenna (that also can be interior antenna with digital TV converter). Now you need VLC media player. You can download it HERE.
After installation of VLC start application and make some changes:
After you choose TV-digital device you need to find one information on the net. For Croatian people we go to THIS MAP and in the map you will see all the transmitters in the country. We looking for transmitter frequency which we will need to use it for streaming our digital TV. Others can look for their country maps or informations (they all have it) about transmitter frequency. So we looking at the map for Zagreb city and informations about channels like this:
Transmitter frequency is 506 MHZ, or 506 000 KHz which we will put here:
Final step is Bandwith which is 8 Mhz and we have all we needed, just press Play.
One thing you need to remember(this english word always remind me of Morpheus from Matrix when he speaks in the cave), Transponder/multiplex frequency doesn't give you all of the channels you need, so try to find other frequencies which you can save later as XSPF file extension and use it as shortcut to that range of covered channels.
