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Data for PVRs (again) ...
Following my post from a few days ago
Does no one on here know ? Really ? I thought a few of the regular American posters were well into U.S. transmission standards and composition, or is that analogue only ? Arfa |
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Arfa Daily wrote:
Following my post from a few days ago Does no one on here know ? Really ? I thought a few of the regular American posters were well into U.S. transmission standards and composition, or is that analogue only ? Arfa I don't know the answer to your question because I don't know what CRID is. Is that supposed to be some standard, who is using it? Except for a mention as a draft in RFC 4078, my google finger is failing me. As far as I know, most people dvr's here in the states use the guide and rely on the data provided to it. So if Fox says American Idol is going to run from 8pm to 9:04pm, if the guide is programmed to show that, the dvr will record it. If it's an accidental overrun, no, the end of the program will get cut off. I noticed some dvr's like from Comcast seem to keep track of shows that usually overrun, when you try to record it, a new screen pops up saying it may do so and gives you an option to record past the shown end time in minutes. Except for some low powered stations, there are no analog broadcasts here anymore. I know they used to bury some neat **** hidden in the signal back then, but these days, no clue. -bruce |
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"Bruce Esquibel" wrote in message ... Arfa Daily wrote: Following my post from a few days ago Does no one on here know ? Really ? I thought a few of the regular American posters were well into U.S. transmission standards and composition, or is that analogue only ? Arfa I don't know the answer to your question because I don't know what CRID is. Is that supposed to be some standard, who is using it? Except for a mention as a draft in RFC 4078, my google finger is failing me. As far as I know, most people dvr's here in the states use the guide and rely on the data provided to it. So if Fox says American Idol is going to run from 8pm to 9:04pm, if the guide is programmed to show that, the dvr will record it. If it's an accidental overrun, no, the end of the program will get cut off. I noticed some dvr's like from Comcast seem to keep track of shows that usually overrun, when you try to record it, a new screen pops up saying it may do so and gives you an option to record past the shown end time in minutes. Except for some low powered stations, there are no analog broadcasts here anymore. I know they used to bury some neat **** hidden in the signal back then, but these days, no clue. -bruce I believe it stands for C-ontent R-eference I-ndicator D-ata and is inserted by the broadcaster to tell devices such as PVRs what exactly is showing at the moment. As far as I know, it, or some variation of it, is in pretty widespread use at least across Europe, and possibly in other parts of the world. Australia comes to mind. Maybe one of our Aussie chums might know that ? The fact that you do not appear to use it your side of the pond, helps answer the question that I was ultimately looking to resolve. A few months back, I changed my pay TV service from the major European satellite provider - whom I had been with from the very early days - to my cable broadband supplier, in order to take advantage of a three-way package to include my landline phone service as well, and save a cartload of money over what it was costing me for three providers. The set top box / recorder that was supplied by the cable company, is a digital TiVo box, which of course has its origins in the U.S. Over the few months that I have had the box, I have grown to hate its shortcomings and little foibles, and long to have my satellite box back. One of its biggest problems is that if a programme such as a football match or the news over-runs for any reason, and the box is set to record the programme that followed the one that over-ran, it does, as you say, just go ahead and record anyway, and miss the start - or possibly even the whole - of the wanted programme. You have to have 'padding' minutes set either side of a programme to accommodate slight late or early starts, which often leads to stuff that's already recording getting truncated. The satellite box never recorded at the wrong time, because it can read and action the CRID. My cheap supermarket Freeview ( UK terrestrial digital TV service) box can also read this data, and likewise records the programmes correctly. Now I know that this data is not common in the U.S. , I guess that explains why the TiVo box doesn't action the data. I don't suppose it knows how ... :-( Arfa |
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OK. This seems to cover it
http://www.interactivetvweb.org/tuto...ntro/dtv_intro The section on "Service Information" contains info on the various 'helper' data that are broadcast within the transport stream for any particular programme Arfa "Arfa Daily" wrote in message ... "Bruce Esquibel" wrote in message ... Arfa Daily wrote: Following my post from a few days ago Does no one on here know ? Really ? I thought a few of the regular American posters were well into U.S. transmission standards and composition, or is that analogue only ? Arfa I don't know the answer to your question because I don't know what CRID is. Is that supposed to be some standard, who is using it? Except for a mention as a draft in RFC 4078, my google finger is failing me. As far as I know, most people dvr's here in the states use the guide and rely on the data provided to it. So if Fox says American Idol is going to run from 8pm to 9:04pm, if the guide is programmed to show that, the dvr will record it. If it's an accidental overrun, no, the end of the program will get cut off. I noticed some dvr's like from Comcast seem to keep track of shows that usually overrun, when you try to record it, a new screen pops up saying it may do so and gives you an option to record past the shown end time in minutes. Except for some low powered stations, there are no analog broadcasts here anymore. I know they used to bury some neat **** hidden in the signal back then, but these days, no clue. -bruce I believe it stands for C-ontent R-eference I-ndicator D-ata and is inserted by the broadcaster to tell devices such as PVRs what exactly is showing at the moment. As far as I know, it, or some variation of it, is in pretty widespread use at least across Europe, and possibly in other parts of the world. Australia comes to mind. Maybe one of our Aussie chums might know that ? The fact that you do not appear to use it your side of the pond, helps answer the question that I was ultimately looking to resolve. A few months back, I changed my pay TV service from the major European satellite provider - whom I had been with from the very early days - to my cable broadband supplier, in order to take advantage of a three-way package to include my landline phone service as well, and save a cartload of money over what it was costing me for three providers. The set top box / recorder that was supplied by the cable company, is a digital TiVo box, which of course has its origins in the U.S. Over the few months that I have had the box, I have grown to hate its shortcomings and little foibles, and long to have my satellite box back. One of its biggest problems is that if a programme such as a football match or the news over-runs for any reason, and the box is set to record the programme that followed the one that over-ran, it does, as you say, just go ahead and record anyway, and miss the start - or possibly even the whole - of the wanted programme. You have to have 'padding' minutes set either side of a programme to accommodate slight late or early starts, which often leads to stuff that's already recording getting truncated. The satellite box never recorded at the wrong time, because it can read and action the CRID. My cheap supermarket Freeview ( UK terrestrial digital TV service) box can also read this data, and likewise records the programmes correctly. Now I know that this data is not common in the U.S. , I guess that explains why the TiVo box doesn't action the data. I don't suppose it knows how ... :-( Arfa |
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In North America your CRID night correlate to PSIP. Is this what you're after? http://www.dtvinnovations.com/pdf/PSIP%20ATSC.pdf G² |
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