{"id":45,"date":"2008-08-06T20:59:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T18:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/?p=45"},"modified":"2008-08-06T20:59:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T18:59:50","slug":"dvb-c-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"DVB-C HD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I finally <a title=\"QAM256 improvement patch\" href=\"http:\/\/linuxtv.org\/pipermail\/linux-dvb\/2008-July\/027517.html\">have a fix<\/a> to lousy QAM256 reception with my good old TT-C2300 (btw, if you own a <em>CableStar<\/em> device, please test the patch, I really think it should be applied as I know quite a few people hitting this issue), I decided to give <a title=\"H.264\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H.264\">H.264<\/a> reception a try. In order to enable vdr-1.6.0 to receive those streams you will have to apply the <a title=\"VDR HD Patch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxtv.org\/pipermail\/vdr\/2008-March\/016227.html\">HD patch<\/a> from Reinhard Nissl. For DVB-C the second version of the patch is sufficient as DVB-S2 is a non-issue here.<\/p>\n<p>For the hardy VDR package applying the patch meant that I had to drop the <em>jumpplay<\/em> patch as that had conflict and I didn&#8217;t bother resolving it. Once you have the patched VDR up and running you will have to add a H.264 channel to your <code>channels.conf<\/code> manually. Luckily there&#8217;s one <a title=\"Free-to-air\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free-to-air\">FTA<\/a> HD channel available over here: <a title=\"Anixe HD\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anixehd.tv\">Anixe HD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the good news is that VDR will successfully tune the channel and also record the stream containing H.264 video and AC3 audio. Unfortunately no software player is able to playback the file. <em>MPlayer<\/em> seems to be unable to parse the TS stream and <em>xine<\/em> segfaults when trying to decode the H.264 stream. Before crashing it will complain that interlaced <a title=\"PAFF\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Summer_Of_Code_2007#PAFF_decoding_for_H.264.2FAVC\">PAFF<\/a> is not implemented in <em>ffmpeg<\/em>, which is a known issue when you &#8211; like me &#8211; own a <a title=\"AVCHD\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AVCHD\">AVCHD<\/a> camcorder.<\/p>\n<p>As I know these issues are heavily being worked on I built a fresh <em>MPlayer<\/em> from SVN as that will also pull the <em>ffmpeg<\/em> trunk. The bad news is that <em>MPlayer<\/em> is still not capable to detect the video inside the TS stream, however, the good news is that when I tested the new build on a few of my AVCHD <a title=\"M2TS\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/.m2ts\">M2TS<\/a> files the PAFF warnings had vanished! <strong>w00t<\/strong>! There were a few minor errors and my old desktop is still too slow for fluent playback, but it seems like once I have a new, more powerful system up and running I might actually be able to playback (and edit?) my AVCHD recordings.<\/p>\n<p>And once I get <em>xine<\/em> to use the current <em>ffmpeg<\/em> trunk I might even be able to watch HDTV via DVB-C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I finally have a fix to lousy QAM256 reception with my good old TT-C2300 (btw, if you own a CableStar device, please test the patch, I really think it should be applied as I know quite a few people hitting this issue), I decided to give H.264 reception a try. In order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vdr","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}