[mythtv-users] BBC HD mux switching to DVBS2

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Mon Jun 6 13:34:37 UTC 2011


On 06/06/2011, Andre <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 3 Jun 2011, at 13:42, Alasdair Macdonald wrote:
>
>> Here's the blog item:
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2011/06/changes_to_bbc_hd_channels_on.html
>>
>> and the key technical data:
>>
>> Satellite: Astra 2D tp.50
>> Frequency: 10,847MHz (vertical polarity)
>> Modulation: DVB-S2, QPSK
>> Symbol Rate: 23.0
>> FEC: 8/9
>
> Well, no immediate switch to 1920x1080, all three channels still running at
> 1440x1080, BBC HD was just peaking at almost 18Mb/s though, an especially
> frantic sequence from Top Gear in the Preview, just happened to be what my
> test recording caught, hope that's not a temporary mistake on BBC's part.
>
>
> All works fine, although I had to do a full rescan & delete off air channels
> in the end, this means I need another re-scan existing transports after 7pm
> to get the part time channels back.
>
> Hoping that the new web controlled backend allows more granular scans, a
> tuned scan without having the scan automatically zoom off to all other muxes
> would be great but I'm sure the relevant devs know that already.
>
> Andre
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Had to do a rescan as trying to alter the mysql DB entries didn't work.

I'll have a look at the differences tonight when I have more time.


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