[mythtvnz] Heads up on today's TV3 and C4 changes
Steven Ellis
mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:10:48 +1200 (NZST)
On Thu, April 19, 2007 1:42 pm, David Zanetti wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 12:36 +1200, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
>> Hmmm, Saturn's TV3 is still the normal aspect ratio as of present.
>
> If you have 4:3 letterbox set on a Sky box, for example, you get 4:3
> content as pillarboxed inside a 16:9 letterbox. Or even worse, ads that
> are playing out 4:3 with letterboxing inside the 4:3 area being
> pillarboxed in a 16:9 area letterboxed.
>
> Maybe TV3 need to learn to flag the streams properly instead of
> pillarboxing. How hard is it to send a 4:3 flag on 4:3 content and a
> 16:9 flag on 16:9 content?
>
> Then it's up to the set top box to do the right thing, like it should
> be.
>
> Arggh.
Yes I heard about this.. Nasty..
We will have to wait and see if they get it right on freeview where they
have more control over the signal. Still no sign of the feeds.
The DVB NIT on their current transponder has the channel details, but
shows the Radio Stations twice (Sky VPol and freeview HPol). Also they
need to change over the SIDs of 1037/1038 as Sky is now using those for
Prime.
DVB NIT details pulled by dvbsnoop below.
Transport_stream_ID: 21 (0x0015)
Original_network_ID: 47 (0x002f) [=3D TVNZ Digital | TVNZ]
reserved_1: 15 (0x0f)
Transport_descriptor_length: 39 (0x0027)
DVB-DescriptorTag: 67 (0x43) [=3D
satellite_delivery_system_descriptor]
Descriptor_length: 11 (0x0b)
Frequency: 19158528 (=3D 12.45600 GHz)
Orbital_position: 5632 (=3D 160.0)
West_East_flag: 1 (0x01) [=3D EAST]
Polarisation: 0 (0x00) [=3D linear - horizontal]
Modulation (Sat): 1 (0x01) [=3D QPSK]
Symbol_rate: 2248704 (=3D 22.5000)
FEC_inner: 3 (0x03) [=3D 3/4 conv. code rate]
DVB-DescriptorTag: 65 (0x41) [=3D service_list_descriptor]
Descriptor_length: 24 (0x18)
service_ID: 1930 (0x078a)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 2 (0x02) [=3D digital radio sound service]
service_ID: 1929 (0x0789)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 2 (0x02) [=3D digital radio sound service]
service_ID: 1924 (0x0784)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
service_ID: 1925 (0x0785)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
service_ID: 1920 (0x0780)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
service_ID: 1921 (0x0781)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
service_ID: 1922 (0x0782)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
service_ID: 1923 (0x0783)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
Transport_stream_ID: 22 (0x0016)
Original_network_ID: 47 (0x002f) [=3D TVNZ Digital | TVNZ]
reserved_1: 15 (0x0f)
Transport_descriptor_length: 42 (0x002a)
DVB-DescriptorTag: 67 (0x43) [=3D
satellite_delivery_system_descriptor]
Descriptor_length: 11 (0x0b)
Frequency: 19170048 (=3D 12.48300 GHz)
Orbital_position: 5632 (=3D 160.0)
West_East_flag: 1 (0x01) [=3D EAST]
Polarisation: 0 (0x00) [=3D linear - horizontal]
Modulation (Sat): 1 (0x01) [=3D QPSK]
Symbol_rate: 2248704 (=3D 22.5000)
FEC_inner: 3 (0x03) [=3D 3/4 conv. code rate]
DVB-DescriptorTag: 65 (0x41) [=3D service_list_descriptor]
Descriptor_length: 27 (0x1b)
service_ID: 1904 (0x0770)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
service_ID: 1901 (0x076d)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
service_ID: 1025 (0x0401)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
service_ID: 1035 (0x040b)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
service_ID: 1036 (0x040c)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
service_ID: 1037 (0x040d)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
service_ID: 1038 (0x040e)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
service_ID: 1902 (0x076e)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
service_ID: 1903 (0x076f)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 1 (0x01) [=3D digital television service]
Transport_stream_ID: 24 (0x0018)
Original_network_ID: 47 (0x002f) [=3D TVNZ Digital | TVNZ]
reserved_1: 15 (0x0f)
Transport_descriptor_length: 21 (0x0015)
DVB-DescriptorTag: 67 (0x43) [=3D
satellite_delivery_system_descriptor]
Descriptor_length: 11 (0x0b)
Frequency: 19208448 (=3D 12.51900 GHz)
Orbital_position: 5632 (=3D 160.0)
West_East_flag: 1 (0x01) [=3D EAST]
Polarisation: 1 (0x01) [=3D linear - vertical]
Modulation (Sat): 1 (0x01) [=3D QPSK]
Symbol_rate: 2248704 (=3D 22.5000)
FEC_inner: 3 (0x03) [=3D 3/4 conv. code rate]
DVB-DescriptorTag: 65 (0x41) [=3D service_list_descriptor]
Descriptor_length: 6 (0x06)
service_ID: 1101 (0x044d)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 2 (0x02) [=3D digital radio sound service]
service_ID: 1102 (0x044e)[ --> refers to PMT program_numbe=
r]
service_type: 2 (0x02) [=3D digital radio sound service]
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