[mythtv-users] BBC bitrates - Freeview versus Satellite

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On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 08:03:20AM +0100, Mark Kendall wrote:
> I'm thinking about adding a satellite feed to my existing terrestrial
> based setup. From memory, the bitrate for BBC1/2 is around 3-4Mbs on
> Freeview - does anyone know what the equivalent bitrate is for the
> BBC's satellite (Astra2D) feed? i.e. will I get better picture
> quality?

On freeview, BBC1's transmission rate is arround 5Mbit per second. This
includes video, audio, subtitles 

BBC2, 3 and news24 are transmitted on the same mux, with a total
bandwidth of arround 11mbit/second

The difference between 1 and the rest is 1 is a static bit rate for
region optouts, the rest don't have region optouts so use statmuxing.

English regions feeds on DSAT (BBC1) are arround 4Mbit/second total, so
slightly lower quality than DTT.

However there is, in practice, little difference. If you have a decent
DTT signal, I'd go for DTT as it gives you more options and less hastle.
The only reason I can ssee for DSat is to record a non-local region.
However since BBC went FTA progammes like scottish football aren't
broadcast on BBCn Scotland on DSat because of rights issues.

Disclaimer: The figures and details about the DTT broadcast chain are 
from memory, and to be honest I was learning this while London was being
blown up, and the BBC have recently sold off it's transmission systems
to the Austrialians so I wasn't paying that much attention :(