[mythtv-users] BBC HD test card

[John Pilkington]

On 18/03/13 15:37, Andre Newman wrote:
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> On 18 Mar 2013, at 12:45, Simon Hobson wrote:
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>> http://gonedigital.net/2013/03/18/grab-your-testcard-while-you-can/
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>> Looks like the last chance to use it.
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> I wonder if they will loop the 3D side by side version too, I don't have that one.
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> Andre
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>> The other comments he makes are quite true - TVs can come with some ghastly defaults.
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>> As I don't have an HD tuner yet, I can't grab it. So ... is there anyone in the UK with a DVB-T2 tuner who would be prepared to grab a sample for me ?
>> Assuming it's not already online
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>> And while looking, I also found this description of how to use it.
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/12/a_christmas_present_from_the_h.html


I just recorded the "BBC HD audio sync test" (about 2 min) and the "BBC 
HD test card & 5.1 audio channel check" (about 8 min) from about 0902 
and 0952 on DVB-T2 BBC HD.  I cut them from a continuous recording with 
MythDVBcut  Around 220 MiB in total.

The Test Card appears to consist of about 10000 frames with no keyframes 
in the regenerated seektable. My laptop doesn't like being asked to jump 
around within it and mythpreviewgen took a long time.
UPnP playback looks pretty good to me, though probably not to Andre, but 
again skipping around seems strange.

The Special End-of-Service transmission on 25/26 (ish) of March is said 
to include historic versions of these tests, but the current ones are 
out there now.

John P