[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Saturday 15 May 2004 05:24, Jerico Webmail wrote: I am seeing more newsgathering people using MPEG-4 and interestingly we will be testing MPEG-4 multicasted over IP encapsulated in DVB very soon. If demand for HDTV grows the money people may demand MPEG-4 to save bandwidth but more likely

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-15 Thread Robert Schlabbach
From: Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 15 May 2004 05:24, Jerico Webmail wrote: I'm also interested to see how many broadcasters make the transition to 8PSK over satellite for DTH. I didn't even think there were any other options than QPSK - I stand corrected :) The DVB-S

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 02:36:24PM +0200, Robert Schlabbach wrote: Strangely enough, the DVB-SI standard (ETSI EN 300 468) provides for other modulation schemes (8PSK and 16-QAM) to be indicated in the satellite_delivery_system descriptor. I'm not sure what DVB-SI is (is the one pertaining

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-15 Thread Richard Scobie
Gavin Hamill wrote: [snip] I'm quite sure the '15Mbps' is purely for show, since the AV7110 is unable to decode streams of more than 10Mbps, and this chip is used in various STBs not to mention our old friends, the 'full feature' PCI cards from Siemens/Fujitsu et al. (if I'm wrong here,

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-15 Thread Robert Schlabbach
From: Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure what DVB-SI is (is the one pertaining to CAMs and encryption?) No, DVB-SI is DVB Service Information. Look at it this way: MPEG-2 defines the _base_ of a digital television system, but leaves many things open, e.g. how to transmit

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-15 Thread Andrew de Quincey
On Saturday 15 May 2004 23:42, you wrote: From: Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure what DVB-SI is (is the one pertaining to CAMs and encryption?) No, DVB-SI is DVB Service Information. Look at it this way: MPEG-2 defines the _base_ of a digital television system, but leaves many

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-14 Thread Jerico Webmail
: Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 14 May 2004 23:45, Jerico Webmail wrote: Well, I can tell you we don't get any metadata for that here. :) Not yet... ;) People controling

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-14 Thread Jerico Webmail
Hey, I have 29 monitors in my office and on my desk, 18 displaying MPEG2 content, sitting in a room with no windows. A 12 hour shift can get somewhat confusing, for the first six months of shift work I didn't even know what day it was, when I finally figured that out I realised I didn't know if

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-14 Thread Jerico Webmail
: [linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 11 May 2004 11:23, you wrote: I am worried that continued exposure to lossy compression (video and audio) has the potential to alter the way our brains process sensory information as we become optimised to processing this kind

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-14 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Friday 14 May 2004 23:45, Jerico Webmail wrote: Well, I can tell you we don't get any metadata for that here. :) Not yet... ;) People controling the money seem to have not spoken to those who actually use this compression hardware. Can't wait to see the customer response when the new

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-11 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Gavin Hamill wrote: Just a note to say that as I was looking out of the window on the train home yesterday evening, I saw lots of trees flash by very quickly, and I did actually think for a moment that I could see some MPEG2 artefacts on the window probably caused by low bitrate.. Oh

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-11 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 11:23, you wrote: I am worried that continued exposure to lossy compression (video and audio) has the potential to alter the way our brains process sensory information as we become optimised to processing this kind of input. The conspiracy theorist in me does wonder if

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-11 Thread Carsten Juttner
Brad Campbell wrote: I am worried that continued exposure to lossy compression (video and audio) has the potential to alter the way our brains process sensory information as we become optimised to processing this kind of input. I know the original mail was not meant seriously but your words

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-11 Thread Niklas Peinecke
Gavin Hamill wrote: Just a note to say that as I was looking out of the window on the train home yesterday evening, I saw lots of trees flash by very quickly, and I did actually think for a moment that I could see some MPEG2 artefacts on the window probably caused by low bitrate.. Oh dear. Is

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-11 Thread Pete Martin
, but maybe that's a different phenomenon :) Pete - Original Message - From: Brad Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:23 AM Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality Gavin Hamill wrote: Just a note to say that as I was looking out of the window

[linux-dvb] Re: [OT] Reality

2004-05-11 Thread Guido Fiala
Reading all that i'am believing that there is a new worm out there - infecting humans as well... You know - there is at least one proven example of this: the term is called Ohrwurm in Germany ;-) -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe linux-dvb as subject.