HD programming on Ku

[dashaund]

As posted previously in the PC DVB area I've got my Twinhan 102g installed and it seems to be working well now for 4:2:0 HD feeds. Haven't found any 4:2:2 to try it on yet. My question is are there any more HD programming on Ku besides PBS HD on AMC 3. I know OLN is on, but that's on C-band. And I'm having trouble finding any HD feeds. Maybe I'm missing them on blind scan on my Coolsat...it does find PBS HD though. If I knew of any more I could manually enter them with the PIDs and all. I know weekends are heavy with college football, but I was hoping I could find something else besides PBS...even though I do enjoy it.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

PBS HD is the only one I know on KU.

 

[digiblur]

As posted previously in the PC DVB area I've got my Twinhan 102g installed and it seems to be working well now for 4:2:0 HD feeds. Haven't found any 4:2:2 to try it on yet. My question is are there any more HD programming on Ku besides PBS HD on AMC 3. I know OLN is on, but that's on C-band. And I'm having trouble finding any HD feeds. Maybe I'm missing them on blind scan on my Coolsat...it does find PBS HD though. If I knew of any more I could manually enter them with the PIDs and all. I know weekends are heavy with college football, but I was hoping I could find something else besides PBS...even though I do enjoy it.

When you find a feed that the Coolsat scanned in but it can't "see" it, fire up TSReader and take a look at it. Your HD stuff is usually going to be in 25000-29000 SR range.

 

[Mr Tony]

weekends they light up for sports in HD

 

[HDTVFanAtic]

You mean like the 4:2:2 of the Sunday night football game on NBC at 36Mbps?

 

[dashaund]

Man, this stuff looks GOOD! There was much speculation as to if the you could use hardware acceleration with 4:2:2 content or even 4:2:0 HD. Ony my machine, it does. Even with VLC, which isn't directly supported. On PBS, my CPU sits between 15-25% load, and with the NBC 4:2:2 stuff on AMC1, its at about 10%. VLC pops up a label on the taskbar that reads "harware YUV overlay DirectX output." This could be PureVideo, I'm not sure. But I am floored at how low my cpu cycles are. Can't with till Sat (maybe Thursday night) when I can test out some 4:2:2 HD stuff. I'm crossing my fingers that I get the same results with those contents. At first, as you might read on a previous thread I submitted, my CPU cycle were up in the 90s. The reason was my interlacing mode. One I put it on "discard" the CPU cycles dropped. An then I messed around with the settings and got hardware accerlation on and working properly. YEAH! Now, why couldn't I get it to work so that I could watch SNF in 36 Mbps? WOW! That's a ton of bandwidth! That's like all the HD channels on D* combined!

 

[Mr Tony]

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[digiblur]

You mean like the 4:2:2 of the Sunday night football game on NBC at 36Mbps?

Watched that one myself! Flipped back and forth between my local NBC-HD OTA signal (no subchannels) and the difference was night and day due to the almost double bit rate.

 

[HDTVFanAtic]

made picture a thumbnail

But now you cannot read the figures and bitrate

 

[dfergie]

You can with IE, click on, open window, wait and expand...

 

[Mr Tony]

But now you cannot read the figures and bitrate

yes you can. Click on the thumbnail and it blows up to regular size
On firefox, I have a magnefying glass that I can hit to make it full size (instead of just same page size as my screen)

 

[docj2005]

when talking about hd on ku why does everyone forget
the nbc hd mux on amc1
i know that you have to offset the lnb but its always there and
if you get it in there is always something to watch


i saw the new shows preview about 3 weeks before it ran localy

 

[RVD420]

when talking about hd on ku why does everyone forget
the nbc hd mux on amc1
i know that you have to offset the lnb but its always there and
if you get it in there is always something to watch


i saw the new shows preview about 3 weeks before it ran localy

What TP is the NBC HD mux on at amc1?

Lyngsat lists NBC on 2 TPs but does say if any are HD.

 

[mark_calgary]

What TP is the NBC HD mux on at amc1?

Lyngsat lists NBC on 2 TPs but does say if any are HD.

From Lyngsat I would guess Tp3 since that is one the few with a symbol rate high enough for it (Tp7 and Tp9 might but they have some 4:2:2 stuff already). Of course Lyngsat may not be accurate. If you have a dedicated receiver, blind scan it and look for the telltale signs of an HD channel i.e. no picture and one channel on a transponder with a high symbol rate.

I wish I could check for you but I'm in the fringes of the footprint and I don't want to skew the lnb on my motorized dish for this. Soon I will be able to, though, as there is a 1.2m dish in my garage waiting to be mounted and pointed at something. This satellite is one of my two top choices for a dedicated dish (SBS-6 being the other - also weak here).

 

[pmb1010]

dvb world receiver, WB HD on G16

Have my DVB World receiver slaved off my Fortec Ultra. Using BSC621-2 C/ku/

I can get the GDMX channel line on G16, and am trying to go for WB HD.

I can see the screen change from 720x480 on 6/6, but when I change to WB Network I can see 1920x1080 go by on the screen, but it stays black, no picture.

Have signal and qualiyt at 70%, CU Processor is steady at 60%. This is a very strong PC, high end video card etc.

What could the problem be?

 

[dashaund]

Possibly not content. Not sure though, I don't have C-band capabilities. I've noticed many of the feed channels will have a signal and quality, but just a black screen. Not saying this is probably it, but possibly an option. I assume you're getting stations such as PBS HD, correct? If so, then I'd say no content.

 

[pmb1010]

having a difficult time with amc3 and PBS HD.
I've moved the cable directltyy to the World box receiver, still nothing 12128h
and AMC3

 

[PSB]

having a difficult time with amc3 and PBS HD.
I've moved the cable directltyy to the World box receiver, still nothing 12128h
and AMC3

Very low quality last few nights around 40% signal quality here in MN. on my DVB World box!

 

[pmb1010]

now it quit

device only lasted 2 hours.

Now it says "Fail to init device, please check it! Do you want to try again?"

I get that 3 times, then it does open the program window, but thewrench icon only allows changing Brightness/jue, contast, etc. No more channel parameters.


Pete - do I have a weird acting unit???

 

[pmb1010]

now I'm in a real jam...
I've removed it and and resinstalled.

Still device will not start 'error 10' in device manager.

Pete - I guess I could tryon another computer, but this one is the best I got and really wanted it working on this machine.

ideas?