BBC ONE N MHEG file sid.cf appears to be a list of all BBC DTT Service IDs, including LR

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sid.cf may be interpreted to give -

BBC ONE
1041, EN, 0, W, 0 : +7C0 BBC Radio Bristol, +800 BBC Radio Gloucestershire, +840 BBC Wiltshire, +880 BBC Somerset, 4
1042, EN, 1, SW, 1 : +7C0 BBC Radio , +800 BBC Radio Devon, 2
1043, EN, 2, S, 2 : +7C0 BBC Radio Solent, +800 BBC Radio Solent in West Dorset, +840 BBC Radio Berkshire, 3
1044, EN, 3, LDN, 3 : +7C0 94.9, 1
1045, EN, 4, MD, 4 : +7C0 BBC WM 95.6, +800 BBC Radio Stoke, +880 BBC Radio Shropshire, 3
1046, EN, 5, EM, 5 : +7C0 BBC Radio , +800 BBC Radio , +840 BBC Radio , 3
1047, EN, 6, E, 6 : +7C0 BBC Radio Norfolk, +800 BBC Radio Suffolk, +840 BBC Essex, 3
1048, EN, 7, NW, 7 : +7C0 BBC Radio Manchester, +800 BBC Radio Lancashire, +840 BBC Radio Merseyside, 3
1049, EN, 8, NE, 8 : +7C0 BBC , +800 BBC Radio Cumbria, +840 BBC Tees, 3
104a, EN, 9, N, 9 : +7C0 BBC Radio Leeds, +800 BBC Radio , +840 BBC Radio York, 3
104b, EN, 10, S, 10 : +7C0 BBC Radio , 1
104c, EN, 11, SE, 11 : +7C0 BBC Radio Kent, +800 BBC Sussex, +840 BBC Surrey, 3
104d, EN, 12, E, 12 : +7C0 BBC Three Counties Radio, +800 BBC Radio , +840 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, 3
104e, EN, 13, SW, 13 : +7C0 BBC Radio Guernsey, +800 BBC Radio Jersey, 2
104f, EN, 14, NE, 14 : +7C0 BBC Radio Lincolnshire, +800 BBC Radio Humberside, 2

...

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where the BBC ONE SID + (7C0 + n * 40) hex offset gives the LR SID.

(BBC ONE SID = TSID of BBC A)

BBC & Worcester and BBC Coventry & Warwickshire are not completely defined in sid.cf but if included would give five streams for MD :

1045, EN, 4, MD, 4 : +7C0 BBC WM 95.6, +800 BBC Radio Stoke, +840 BBC Hereford & Worcester, +880 BBC Radio Shropshire, +8C0 BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, 5

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Bonanza Bonanza
Wednesday 15 April 2015 6:43PM

john buckley: BnanzaBnanza* changed on 8th April

from

12515.25 H 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E

to

11389.00 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E

If you are using a box you should carry out a Freesat .

*Called BONANZABONANZA on Freesat, BnanzaBnanza on .

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CBS Reality
Wednesday 29 April 2015 1:03AM

Malcolm Cridlan: 135 CBS Reality, 149 Food Network and 151 Food Network+1

moved on 27th April from
11344.50 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK
to
11426.33 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK

You may need to carry out a .

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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Wednesday 29 April 2015 1:52AM

Does anyone know why the Arqiva T2 multiplexes have a different bitrate to that of BBC B?

com 7: 40,200,039 bps
com 8: 40,200,034 bps
BBC B: 40,214,669 bps

(bps = bits per second)

The bitrates were measured from recorded samples of the full transport stream by "DVB-T2 Data-Rate Calculator", which is a free tool found here:

DVB-T2 Data-Rate Calculator - decontis

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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Wednesday 29 April 2015 6:46AM

To give an idea of the accuracy of the measured bitrates, here are the results for all the multiplexes.

40214625 bps BBC B

40200015 bps com 7
40200018 bps com 8

27144380 bps Arqiva A
27144382 bps Arqiva B
27144372 bps SDN

24128332 bps BBC A
24128338 bps D3&4

18096298 bps LocalMux1

9048132 bps LocalMux2

The results from "DVB-T2 Data-Rate Calculator" are identical to those from my own program, which works like this:

TS packets are read until a packet containing a PCR is found. The PID is noted and PCRs are read from packets with this PID, noting the corresponding packet count, until end of file.

Results from a ten second (long enough to capture all the service tables) sample of com 7 were

pcr pid = 401
first_pcr = 2138813251731
first_packet = 2
last_pcr = 2139084457513
last_packet = 268483

Using this data we get:

bitrate = 27000000*(last_packet-first_packet)*188*8/(last_pcr-first_pcr) = 40200015 bps

Notes:
A Transport Stream (TS) is a sequence of packets.
A TS packet is 188 bytes long or 188*8 bits.
PID = packet identifier = A unique integer value used to identify elementary streams in a Transport Stream.
PCR = Program Clock Reference = A time stamp in the Transport Stream from which decoder timing is derived.
PCR is a count of cycles of the 27 MHz system clock.

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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Sunday 3 May 2015 12:54AM

For DVB-T, the NIT contains Delivery System descriptors which give the transmission parameters for each .
For example:

BBC A
centre_frequency = 706000
bandwidth = 8 MHz
constellation = 64-QAM
transmission_mode = 8k
code_rate = 2/3
guard_interval = 1/32

from which the theoretical bitrate is found to be 24128342 bps.

On UK DTT, in the case of a T2 multiplex, the so called "T2 Delivery System" descriptor is just three bytes.
For example:

BBC B
plp_id = 00
T2_system_id = 402A

No transmission parameters are given so the theoretical bitrate is unknown. Not even the transmission . Utterly Useless.

The measured bitrates are generally close to the theoretical bitrates:

Multiplex: Measured Bitrate, Theoretical Bitrate

COM 7: 40200022, unknown
COM 8: 40200018, unknown
Arqiva A: 27144380, 27144385
BBC A: 24128332, 24128342
BBC B: 40214633, unknown
Arqiva B: 27144381, 27144385
LocalMux2: 9048132, 9048128
LocalMux: 18096364, 18096257
SDN: 27144349, 27144385
D3&4: 24128338, 24128342

In ETSI TS 102 831 V1.2.1
Implementation guidelines for a second generation terrestrial television broadcasting system (DVB-T2)
Table 17: Maximum bit-rate and recommended configurations for 8 MHz, 32 K 1/128, PP7

Modulation = 256-QAM
Code rate = 2/3
Frame length = 60
FEC blocks per frame = 202

gives a Theoretical Bitrate of 40214645 bps, which is very close to the Measured BBC B bitrate of 40214633 bps.

Does anyone know of a T2 parameter set which matches the COM 7 and COM 8 Measured Bitrates?

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Vintage TV
Sunday 3 May 2015 11:59AM

Nigel Perkins: Vintage TV now has channel number 505 on .

Here are the Freesat changes from 23-04-2015 to 02-05-2015

LCN Changed
504 -> 503 B4U Music
517 -> 507 CAPITAL TV
503 -> 502 ChartshowDance
160 -> 146 Challenge +1
516 -> 506 heart tv
518 -> 508 Kiss
523 -> 510 Magic
505 -> 504 Starz TV
519 -> 509 The Box
515 -> 505 Vintage TV
146 -> 511 VIVA

Transponder Moves (11345H -> 11426V)
149 Food Network
151 Food Network+1
135 CBS Reality

DELETED
510 CLUBLAND TV
512 NOW Music
875 PlayboyTV Chat

NEW (in the test region)
986 Freesat 4K

This is actually "Astra UHD Demo" on 12441.00 V 29500 3/4 DVB-S2 QPSK

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My high gain aerial can't get all the Freeview channels I e
Saturday 9 May 2015 6:27AM

Dave Brown: Film4+1 used to be a regular service on the DVB-T "Arqiva B" , thus available to all devices.

Since November 2014, Film4+1 has been on the DVB-T2 "BBC B" multiplex, thus available only to DVB-T2 capable devices.

The DVB-T2 "BBC B" multiplex currently carries these :

102 BBC TWO HD
101 BBC ONE HD
103 ITV HD
104 Channel 4 HD
105 BBC THREE HD
123 CBBC HD
45 Film4+1

If a device cannot receive BBC ONE HD, for example, then it cannot receive Film4+1

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My high gain aerial can't get all the Freeview channels I e
Saturday 9 May 2015 7:16AM

Dave Brown: "Investigation finds that tv is seeing 27 (!) with very good and finds programs on it including film 4+1 but does not show them in the EPG, a spare also does the same"

EPG data is effectively encrypted for all , SD as well as HD, on the T2 multiplexes.

Do the devices bear the "" logo? See the section headed "Copy protection" here:

Freeview (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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All free TV channels in the UK
Tuesday 12 May 2015 3:32PM

Series 3 of Breaking Bad on Spike starts Wednesday 13th May.

A new series CRID (Content Reference IDentifier) is used so PVRs set to record the current series will not automatically record the new series.

Here are the "Breaking Bad" CRIDs for and :

Freesat 2015 05 12 11:11:32
service_name = "Spike"
onid.tsid.sid = 2.2057.7730 = 2.809.1E32
default_authority = "www.channel5.com"
{
programme = "Breaking Bad"
crid = "/V4YNY", item, date: Tue 12 May 23:00
crid = "/R4A62", series, date: Tue 12 May 23:00
crid = "/V7IND", item, date: Wed 13 May 23:00
crid = "/R4CQG", series, dates: Wed 13 May 23:00, Thu 14 May 23:00, Fri 15 May 23:00
crid = "/V7INE", item, date: Thu 14 May 23:00
crid = "/V7INF", item, date: Fri 15 May 23:00
crid = "/643842982", item, date: Mon 18 May 23:00
crid = "/1396365688", series, dates: Mon 18 May 23:00, Tue 19 May 23:00
crid = "/644024441", item, date: Tue 19 May 23:00
}

Freeview 2015 05 12 11:47:32
service_name = "Spike"
onid.tsid.sid = 9018.24640.25856 = 233A.6040.6500
default_authority = "www.five.tv"
{
programme = "Breaking Bad"
crid = "/V4YNY", item, date: Tue 12 May 23:00
crid = "/R4A62", series, date: Tue 12 May 23:00
crid = "/V7IND", item, date: Wed 13 May 23:00
crid = "/R4CQG", series, dates: Wed 13 May 23:00, Thu 14 May 23:00, Fri 15 May 23:00, Mon 18 May 23:00, Tue 19 May 23:00
crid = "/V7INE", item, date: Thu 14 May 23:00
crid = "/V7INF", item, date: Fri 15 May 23:00
crid = "/V7ING", item, date: Mon 18 May 23:00
crid = "/V7INH", item, date: Tue 19 May 23:00
}

Note the odd series and item CRIDs that appear on Monday 18th May on Freesat. Freesat and Freeview generally use the same CRIDs so they will likely be changed to match Freeview. Keep an eye on it!

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