DVB-T2 in Germany?

[Mirko]

Hello,

I am interested in buying the terrestrial version of the VBox to use with DVB-T2 in the near future. However, I can find no information on whether it will work in Germany. DVB-T2 over here is special in that it uses a different Codec (HEVC aka h.265) than most other countries.

Is it necessary for the VBox to support a certain codec at all? As I understand it, the box will merely stream or record the content, not decode it?

Thanks in advance,
Mirko

[admin@vbox]

Hi Mirko,
You are absolutely correct, the VBox keeps the original broadcasted encoding
Therefore the VBox supports any encoding standard including HEVC H.265

[hj_fr]

I recently received my XTI-3442, and no problem with DVB-T2/HEVC for the free German channels.

[stealthx]

Does XTi-3342 supports HEVC too? I'm not able to tune DVB-T2 channels (XTI_VB.2.57). Different TV on the same antene works good with DVB-T2.

[admin@vbox]

Hi @stealthx
I suggest that you will contact VBox support to receive the latest FW version
As to HEVC - the VBox streams the original encoding, so it is up to the player to support HEVC, I recommend trying Kodi which have a wide codec support http://www.vboxcomm.com/how-to-setup-vb ... ypton.html

[stealthx]

Thank you, now VBox (XTI_VB.2.58.2) is able to tune DVB-T2. It seems that PRi3 isn't powerful enough to play HEVC. It starts playing and after few sec is LibreELEC restarted.

[admin@vbox]

This could very well be the case, German HD channels have very high bit rate and require strong hardware to play