Telly on the computer
Having rebuilt my machine back to its original
XP Media Center Edition 2005, I've been playing with the TV tuner (a
WinTV Nova-T DVB-T USB stick). I kept getting the error
the video decoder has either malfunctioned or is not installed, but after some Googling, I found the answer was to install a MPEG2 decoder such as this
GPL-licensed one available at
http://www.deskshare.com/download/mpeg2decoder.exe.
Got my indoor aerial plugged in (strangely, we don't have an outdoor aerial), and it seems to be working. Now its time to work out how to record
Primeval tonight!