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October 22

Specific question about Adobe After Effects

Hi, some one knows how to use a velocity render from 3ds max in AE??

Now I’m having some isues with Combustion, and I really don’t like Flame very much, instead AE is a very easy and powerfull tool… but I can’t make to work the velocity render prooperly, I can just blurs two axis (x and y)…

Some advice? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iskander HFC (talk • contribs) 04:07, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Will a TV tuner work with IPTV

Hi there, noob question, is it possible to watch Bell Fibe TV directly on a computer? I've been reading about TV tuners, but most of the stuff out there talks about over-the-air, basic cable, satellite, etc, not much on IPTV. Say I purchase the Hauppauge WinTV HVR-2250 or a similar card, I simply plug the coaxial cable directly from the router into the card, bypassing the PVR, and the card will magically decrypt the signal and let me watch HD TV in real time, see the listings, record shows, etc? Or is there something else to it. Thanks. 74.12.214.46 (talk) 04:54, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

No. For starters the HVR-2250 only supports ATSC (and possibly analog, the DVB-T versions of the 22x0 line do but can't remember if the ATSC versions do) so it will never work. In theory since you're using an IPTV solution and as per our article, the Fibe TV service can connect with what cat 5 cable so I presume it can just use normal ethernet you could just use your normal network without needing any extra device and probably no extra connection. In practice, you almost definitely can't do that since the IPTV is encrypted and I expect no option to decrypt it on your PC is available. Your provider could provide some sort of CAM or other method to get the signal to the PC (I believe that's sometimes required in the US) but it's unlikely they would. In which case, your only option is to get a device which can record the analog HDTV signal (like a Hauppauge HD PVR) and if your STB can't output an analog HD signal, a HDMI to analog box like the HDFury (I don't know how these work, in theory with HDCP the STB could stop working with them at any time), and then use an IR blaster to control the STB. The guide will need to come from some other source, but this is fairly common anyway. And software is the key here, even with a ATSC card the card doesn't perform magic. Edit: Looks like HDCP is broken which is why devices like the HDFury exist. Nil Einne (talk) 07:30, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

I had a check and I was slightly mistaken, the HVR-2250 also supports clear QAM (television). It doesn't support analog. Nil Einne (talk) 03:47, 23 October 2012 (UTC)