ITV HD

[MikeS]

Since loading the new files in the COMMON directory, I have the ITVHD card displayed in HD.

Unfortunately, I have lost BBC HD now.

My two relevant lines are:

CH:6 onid:2 tsid:2050 sid:6940 frq:10847000 rate:22000 mod:20 pol:2 fec_rate_in:6 sat:0 ctrl:1 #:BBC HD
CH:31 onid:2 tsid:2315 sid:10510 frq:11427000 rate:27500 mod:0 pol:1 fec_rate_in:2 pilot:0 sat:0 ctrl:1 #:ITV HD

I'm running WHS, 2x Hauppauge WinTV88x with SageTV 6.4.8

Can anyone help?

Thanks

[jaminben]

I dont think anyone here has both working sucsessfully and we're waiting for a fix. If you could fill in a bug report and maybe supply them with a small sample it would help to speed things along. I'm hoping for a fix before xmas but not holding my breath.

[MikeS]

BBCHD has sprung to life...... although the normally smooth video now stutters badly.

I'm going to rollback the COMMON changes and see if that helps.

Why does the ITVHD change affect BBCHD as the change should just allow manual adjustment of the settings????

[doc]

I've had all sorts of playback issues since going to 6.5.1 and 6.5.2 with BBC-HD.

I tried uninstalling 6.5.2 and reinstalling 6.4.8 - then copy the old 6.4.8 backup folders over the top but its still the same so am now restoring from an old Acronis image to see how that gets on.

6.4.8 was great for BBC-HD. I'm not really bothered about ITV-HD so will probably wait until the next few beta's settle down before having another go.

[Garee]

I've not had BBC HD working for several days now. I either get nothing at all, a picture and no sound, or a very choppy picture with no sound.

I haven't upgraded the software at all though - the only change I made was to add the Channel 5 information into my FRQ files, but I'm not sure if the problem started happening around the same time or not.

I was wondering if something has possibly changed with the BBC HD broadcast - is anyone not having problems with it?

[bunch92]

Originally Posted by Garee

I haven't upgraded the software at all though - the only change I made was to add the Channel 5 information into my FRQ files, but I'm not sure if the problem started happening around the same time or not. I was wondering if something has possibly changed with the BBC HD broadcast - is anyone not having problems with it?

I added FIVE to my FRQ file and my grabber last week , and everything still works fine (even BBC-HD). I have not tried to add ITV-HD yet.

[jaminben]

Just installed beta 6.5.3 and BBC HD seems to be working again except for random pixilation which maybe down to a signal problem.

ITV HD also seems to be working, well the test card is anyway. I'll have to wait until Sunday when they are actually broadcasting a programme to test fully. Said programme happens to be Star Wars, which will be good in HD if it works. So fingers crossed for that.

[jaminben]

Anyone else tried ITV HD with the latest beta? Mine still stutters but not as bad as it was before.

[moamoa]

Originally Posted by jaminben

Anyone else tried ITV HD with the latest beta? Mine still stutters but not as bad as it was before.

I put the latest beta version on prior to watching Star Wars on ITV HD on Sunday. There is that little content on ITV it's hard to get time to check it!

I did actaully notice some stutter to start with too. To me it looked like a quality issue a bit like poor reception. I played about with the frequency that was in the FRQ file and moved it up and down a bit. After a bit of fiddling I did actaully get it working much better.

Having said that, for an HD broadcast I did find it poor. Flicking back between the SD and the HD version, you could hardly tell the difference, it's not like BBC HD which can be superb sometimes.

It looked to me as if ITV had bought some cheep low res version of the film and upscaled it to 1080 for braodcast! Also, the audio only seemed to be ProLogic stereo, not full 5.1 DD, which the BBC put on a lot of their content.

It's almost not worth the effort.

[doc]

I had EPG data from Radio Times working for a couple of weeks but now it doesn't find any programs.

I emailed them to ask if there were going to provide listings for ITV-HD and they said ......

We are currently having to compile this ourselves so it doesn’t come as part of our normal listings bundle. There are no plans to include it in the XML data at the moment.

So it looks like I'll have to find another way.

Are Digiguide listing ITV-HD? I know the subscription isn't a lot of money but as I only need this one channel - and theres very little on it - it doesn't seem worth it.

I guess I could spend my christmas attempting to write something to scrape some listings from somewhere - it would save me getting bored - then again I could spend £10 if its on Digiguide and spend more time in the pub.

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by doc

Are Digiguide listing ITV-HD? I know the subscription isn't a lot of money but as I only need this one channel - and theres very little on it - it doesn't seem worth it.

Yes Digiguide does have data for ITV HD, I personally prefer Digiguide over RadioTimes but thats just my opinion. For the sake of £10 I would use Digiguide and spend more time in the pub, sounds much better to me.

Originally Posted by moamoa

I did actaully notice some stutter to start with too. To me it looked like a quality issue a bit like poor reception. I played about with the frequency that was in the FRQ file and moved it up and down a bit. After a bit of fiddling I did actaully get it working much better.

I'll have a play with my .frq's and see if I can improve the stutter as well.

[starfire]

Does anyone know what the state of ITV HD support is as I cannot get it working?

I am running 6.5.9 (non beta) and have added the relevant frq entry and can select the channel in the EPG but get a blank output.

I've tried 11427 and 11426 frequencies but still no joy?

Looking at the .zip at the start of this thread the versions of the 2 files in there seem to be older than I am running so I haven't tried them as I figured 6.5.9 is more recent.

Presumably they transmit a test card when nothing is running on the channel?

Thanks!

[fac13]

Yes, they do transmit a test card; I have checked and it is being transmitted right now.

My tssplitter.ax is dated 2/2/9 and my mpegdemux.ax is dated 14/8/8. I originally used the ones from the zip file you mention but I guess they got overwritten by a subsequent sagetv upgrade. I'm currently on 6.5.9.

As far as I know I can still watch ITV HD using them, but it is ages since I tried. As I say, the test card displays ok anyway.

I use frequency 11427000, not 11426000 as some posters seem to.

[starfire]

OK, I will check those file versions - I should have mentioned I only use extenders, in this case an HD100, is this what you are using?

I wonder if Sage is cacheing the frequencies somewhere other than the .frq file, perhaps its not picking up my changes (I shut the service, edit the file, then restart the service) ?

[fac13]

I get the testcard ok on my HD100s, my PC clients and my MVPs.

I don't think that's relevant though, I'm sure that whatever you are viewing on, Sage will use the frq files in the SageTV\SageTV folder.

A blank screen suggests to me you've either got a duff entry or no entry at all for that channel number. Have you tried temporarily hijacking a working channel number and setting it to use the ITV HD tuning parameters?

You are right that all you should have to do is stop the service, edit the line, restart the service, that's all I've ever had to do.

[starfire]

Originally Posted by fac13

A blank screen suggests to me you've either got a duff entry or no entry at all for that channel number. Have you tried temporarily hijacking a working channel number and setting it to use the ITV HD tuning parameters?

Well not really - when i first got the card I did a scan and it found a few hundred channels I think. I disabled them all in Sage apart from BBC HD (which works fine) and one other random channel and then changed that channel to reflect ITV HD.

I will have a go at temporarily changing my BBC HD entry as I know it works.

I guess it could also be my DVB-S card perhaps?

[fac13]

I dont think it's likely to be your card, mine are 'S2' cards but it's an 'S' transmission. There are plenty of Pinnacle users here so I would have thought that somebody would have reported a problem by now.

I'm afraid I've run out of ideas at the moment, sorry.

[starfire]

Well I give up - I changed the entry for ITV HD to a BBC 1 channel and it worked fine so Sage is picking up the changes I'm making in the frq file.

I've gone through 11426,11427,11428 frequencies but still no joy at all, just a blank screen. Have also tried different mod: entries as I saw both 0 and 20 listed but still no change.

Thanks for your input though (btw using Compro S350 for the Satellite).

[doc]

I'd hang on for the next beta as it has new DVB software.

I had ITV-HD using 11426 on a previous beta. It would always show the logo, but the playback would be ok for a few seconds, then freeze, then play, then freeze. I haven't checked since moving to a later beta. I'm playing back on an HD100 and HD200.

BBC-HD plays fine for AC3 5.1 audio but just gives a blank screen for stereo audio. Sage are looking into this so fingers crossed for the next beta which at a guess will only be a couple of weeks away (or there abouts)

[Whitey]

ITV-HD working fine for me with latest beta and HD100. I actually watched the football on it last night. Still got problems with BBC-HD though, all down to the sound it seems.

Whitey