[mythtv] ATSC PSIP Mandate has Arrived

Daniel Thor Kristjansson danielk at mrl.nyu.edu
Tue Feb 1 08:24:34 EST 2005


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Taylor Jacob wrote:
]Quoting Todd Freeman <freeman at andrews.edu>:
]What are you using to look at the psip?  The PCHDTV app?
]> Local PBS WNIT-34 (35):
]> 	Vacilates between:
]> 		WNIT Regular Schedule
]> 		PBS HD Feed
]> 	and that is it...
]> Local FOX WSJV-28 (58):
]> 	Can't get any PSIP data.... tons of packet errors in their format... unsure
]> why...
]Does it just look like a mess?  If you see no readable text it could be Huffman
]compressed.. The PBS station here uses Huffman text compression which the dvb
]code additions support..

PBS is usually good about supporting standards, if you are using the 
pcHDTV drivers and MythTV to print out the EIT's it should tell you if 
the strings are Huffman compressed.

-- Daniel


More information about the mythtv-dev mailing list