Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel providers California
Have a look here: http://www.silicondust.com/support/channels Once you've selected your zip code, it will tell you what you have via ATSC over the air, and ATSC-Qam through your cable companies. I have some scripts which use this to build a channels.conf if you'd like.. Any chance I could get hold of those scripts to build channels.conf? I'm now in Portland Oregon, zip 97224 Thanks Simon ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel providers California (now OREGON
On 4/9/2011 8:52 PM, Simon Baxter wrote: From what I've read Comcast uses two levels of encryption, a basic one for tier one channels (extended basic in marketing terms) then a more comprehensive key encryption for their digital preferred channels. I use a combination of two set top boxes, a PVR HD for HD channels and a PVR500 for SD channels, and two Clear Qam adapters for locals. The Clear Qam are very good quality MPEG 2 HD or SD streams with AC3 audio, the PVR500 is reasonable, but one my boxes has interference on the svideo output. The HD-PVR is really good, giving an H264 with AC-3 passthrough TS stream. However, every now and then the cable box glitches and the HD-PVR stops streaming. PVRInput isn't aware (yet - although Lars is looking into it) that it's not sending anything to VDR. This is a problem when recording as VDR restarts, if I'm doing concurrent recordings then I lose bits of other recording during this time. As an aside, AC-3 is passed through from the original ATSC-QAM stream, I had to patch VDR again to stop checking for ATSC on Audio Type 0x81 or VDR would ignore the audio dpid of the channel and set it to 0. This also had to be done for the VNSI plugin in XBMC-PVR. I really want to thank Lars for teaching me about TS streams.. New question - what hardware support is there for VDR and ATSC? I'm moving to the US, so will be ditching my DVB-C and DVB-S hardware - what should I be buying to work with VDR? I would wait until you get here and then spend a week asking people. I use Comcast at home but have been thinking of switching to Dish as I thought it was supported better with VDR: However, you have to jump through so many hoops now to get it working, it might not be worth it. You could find just using OTA ATSC is good enough and then get Netflix working (alas not in VDR without a bit of hacking and a spare windows PC). Netflix has huge back catalogs of stuff which more than makes up for cable. Any Hauppauge ATSC card will work with Linux either as a PCI or PCI-E. However, there is a minor glitch with the usb cards where they can refuse to sync on a station without unplugging and replugging. Some comcast boxes have firewire output. You can change the channel and get SD and HD out of these, and the IPTV plugin can be made to work with them. However, no decrytion can be done with Linux yet (without severe hoop jumping - read resoldering the motherboard of your sat box to find the box id). IMHO it's better you use an analog input stream. If you can leave a VDR box back home then you can streamdev it to get home TV in the US, something that we would have liked to have done.. Rob ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel providers California (now OREGON
From what I've read Comcast uses two levels of encryption, a basic one for tier one channels (extended basic in marketing terms) then a more comprehensive key encryption for their digital preferred channels. I use a combination of two set top boxes, a PVR HD for HD channels and a PVR500 for SD channels, and two Clear Qam adapters for locals. The Clear Qam are very good quality MPEG 2 HD or SD streams with AC3 audio, the PVR500 is reasonable, but one my boxes has interference on the svideo output. The HD-PVR is really good, giving an H264 with AC-3 passthrough TS stream. However, every now and then the cable box glitches and the HD-PVR stops streaming. PVRInput isn't aware (yet - although Lars is looking into it) that it's not sending anything to VDR. This is a problem when recording as VDR restarts, if I'm doing concurrent recordings then I lose bits of other recording during this time. As an aside, AC-3 is passed through from the original ATSC-QAM stream, I had to patch VDR again to stop checking for ATSC on Audio Type 0x81 or VDR would ignore the audio dpid of the channel and set it to 0. This also had to be done for the VNSI plugin in XBMC-PVR. I really want to thank Lars for teaching me about TS streams.. New question - what hardware support is there for VDR and ATSC? I'm moving to the US, so will be ditching my DVB-C and DVB-S hardware - what should I be buying to work with VDR? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel providers California
On 01/10/10 14:21, Simon Baxter wrote: Is there a CI/CAM option with ATSC-QAM cards? Or are the cable network encryption mechanisms proprietary (needing PVR with HDMI to get into VDR)? As Thomas said, ATSC OTA is always free, however, CableCo's encrypt some of their channels. I had to hack VDR to stop it from updating CAID as Comcast here put a CAID on channels that actually were FTA. I also had to patch VDR to allow stream type 0x80 to actually be 0x02, (Mpeg) as my PBS stations were encoded with type 0x80, which meant VDR gave them a vpid of 0 and thought they were radio channels. From what I've read Comcast uses two levels of encryption, a basic one for tier one channels (extended basic in marketing terms) then a more comprehensive key encryption for their digital preferred channels. I use a combination of two set top boxes, a PVR HD for HD channels and a PVR500 for SD channels, and two Clear Qam adapters for locals. The Clear Qam are very good quality MPEG 2 HD or SD streams with AC3 audio, the PVR500 is reasonable, but one my boxes has interference on the svideo output. The HD-PVR is really good, giving an H264 with AC-3 passthrough TS stream. However, every now and then the cable box glitches and the HD-PVR stops streaming. PVRInput isn't aware (yet - although Lars is looking into it) that it's not sending anything to VDR. This is a problem when recording as VDR restarts, if I'm doing concurrent recordings then I lose bits of other recording during this time. As an aside, AC-3 is passed through from the original ATSC-QAM stream, I had to patch VDR again to stop checking for ATSC on Audio Type 0x81 or VDR would ignore the audio dpid of the channel and set it to 0. This also had to be done for the VNSI plugin in XBMC-PVR. I really want to thank Lars for teaching me about TS streams.. -- Rob Davis ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel providers California
Do any networks or network providers provide free or accessible ATSC channels in the LA area? Is it FTA, or do they require a CI/CAM? Have a look here: http://www.silicondust.com/support/channels Once you've selected your zip code, it will tell you what you have via ATSC over the air, and ATSC-Qam through your cable companies. I have some scripts which use this to build a channels.conf if you'd like.. Thanks Rob Is there a CI/CAM option with ATSC-QAM cards? Or are the cable network encryption mechanisms proprietary (needing PVR with HDMI to get into VDR)? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel providers California
To find out what is around you, try this: http://tvfool.com/ It will tell you both the digital and any remaining analog stations, the direction and ~ signal level to your location. ALL ATSC is FTA free to air. It is the replacement for the old analog FTA/OTA broadcast all high power stations have been required to switch, so all major network stations in your area, abc, nbc, cbs, etc should be ATSC. Low power local stations did not have to switch, so you may have a few analog in the area. On 10/1/2010 2:07 AM, Simon Baxter wrote: Do any networks or network providers provide free or accessible ATSC channels in the LA area? Is it FTA, or do they require a CI/CAM? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel providers California
I should say ATSC is the national standard replacement for NTSC On 10/1/2010 2:07 AM, Simon Baxter wrote: Do any networks or network providers provide free or accessible ATSC channels in the LA area? Is it FTA, or do they require a CI/CAM? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
