Hi,
Not sure about the best forum for this, but decided to try here.
From what I can tell, the iPad 2 should be capable of playing back the HD TV channels as broadcast on Freeview HD without re-encoding the video or audio streams.
According to Apple's site it can handle, amongst others:
"H.264 video up to 1080p, 30 frames per second, High Profile level 4.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;"
From what I can tell, Freeview HD is H.264 High Profile level 4.0 with AAC-LC audio at 128kbps (for Stereo transmissions), or 320kbps for 5.1 transmissions.
My question is whether anyone has tried this? The video and audio would need to be remuxed in a mp4 container (and audio downsampled to stereo and re-encoded for 5.1 transmissions).
I only have an iPad 1, so can't try this - IIUC this won't be able to decode the HD video.
Thanks.
Not sure about the best forum for this, but decided to try here.
From what I can tell, the iPad 2 should be capable of playing back the HD TV channels as broadcast on Freeview HD without re-encoding the video or audio streams.
According to Apple's site it can handle, amongst others:
"H.264 video up to 1080p, 30 frames per second, High Profile level 4.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;"
From what I can tell, Freeview HD is H.264 High Profile level 4.0 with AAC-LC audio at 128kbps (for Stereo transmissions), or 320kbps for 5.1 transmissions.
My question is whether anyone has tried this? The video and audio would need to be remuxed in a mp4 container (and audio downsampled to stereo and re-encoded for 5.1 transmissions).
I only have an iPad 1, so can't try this - IIUC this won't be able to decode the HD video.
Thanks.