[mythtv-users] ITV HD 0.21 Fixes

[Andre Newman]

On 3 Apr 2009, at 16:45, Robert McNamara wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Adam Skinner <kingmoffa at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> A mysql insert query for the ITVHD channel that I could manipulate  
>> would
>> be welcome. Or rough idea of settings - mplexid , serviceid etc - any
>> other values that maybe needed. I understand that getting program  
>> data
>> may be a pain - I use EIT.
>
> That's just not possible as the problem with ITV HD is that it
> (falsely) identifies itself as an MPEG-1 video stream, even though
> it's H.264.  They more or less lie about what the stream contents are.
> As the codec of the channel is not something stored in the database,
> there's no SQL statement that would allow you to get the channel
> working.  In short, the only way to make it work is applying the
> patch, and the patches are all hacks (my own included).  That's the
> reason there hasn't been a "final" fix so far, there's just been no
> elegant way to do it.

I'm futzing around with a script that remuxes ITV HD into an ordinary  
transport stream that my PS3 will play, I don't see why the Myth  
frontend wouldn't play it too.
I used to use TSDoctor under wine but it's slow and gui only, I tried  
to reason with the Author for some cli options but he likes Windows  
GUI applications and doesn't understand why anyone would want anything  
else.

http://www.cypheros.de/dvb_e.html
TSmuxer will fix the transport stream too and that's what I use in my  
script, you can just rename the recording to end in .ts then throw it  
at tsmuxerGUI and it will do the right thing to fix the video stream.
I'll publish my script when it's working properly, hopefully in the  
next day or two.

I'm running the MythBuntu weekly builds of 0.21 fixes maybe there  
isn't support for ITV HD in the build you are using?

As to tuning ITV HD it shows up in a scan as 10510 I just change the  
ID and description to ITV HD and turn on EIT from Mythweb and the  
schedule (for what it's worth) just appears, you may think it's not  
working but actually there are only a few programmes a week  
transmitted, I schedule like any other channel.
If you want to do it manually, there are plenty of guides to adding it  
to FTA satellite receivers that give the relevant pids or look here:
http://en.kingofsat.net/detail-itv-hd.php

Andre