TV 'red button' services?

SwissBuster · 2008-08-13, 10:21

I'm trying to ge the 'red button' service to work on my PC (TV feed is satelite via a Technisat SkyStar HD2 card), especially the BBC's olympics coverage. I haven't got the red button to map properly with my remote yet, but I suspect this is not the main issue here - it would be to switch to the additional channel/frequency that these red button services use.

Appologies if this has been covered already, but in my searches I couldn't find an answer.

Paranoid Delusion · 2008-08-13, 23:25

MHEG5 is not supported by MP, a couple of guys (mcgroober in particular, if memory serves me) were trying to do this, but have not been heard of for month's.

Regards

SwissBuster · 2008-08-16, 09:55

I found a workaround to get the 'red button' services.

For BBC 1, the red button channels appear in the TV channel listing as 'Stream-0' to 'Stream-6'. In the TV server config, I added these to a new TV group called 'Red Button'. I sorted the channel order and renamed the channels so that the first channel in the list was called 'BBC 1 multi-screen' (from memory this is Stream-6) followed by 'BBC 1 red button 2', 'BBC 1 red button 3', etc. One of these streams (stream-1?) is the normal BBC 1 channel so I deleted this from the group.

When watching TV, if I want to go to the red button service, I just select 'change channel', press 'right' on the remote to switch to the red button group, then select the feed I want. It should actually be possible to map these key presses to a macro for the remote control, but that's getting too clever for me.

You could do the same thing with BBC news; the multi-view screens are channels 'T7 STRM-0' and 'T7 STRM-1'. I haven't found the corresponding feeds, and I won't because I don't use this service.

Paranoid Delusion · 2008-08-16, 12:12

Quote:

I found a workaround to get the 'red button' services.

Not quite the Red button services as those are a lot more involved, but a workaround for the sub channels, nice way to do this, so all credit to you

and hope it helps someone else setting this up, which i'm pretty sure it will.

Regards

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2008-08-16, 09:55	#3 (permalink)
SwissBuster Portal Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Geneva, Switzerland Posts: 62 Thanks: 6 Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post Country:	I found a workaround to get the 'red button' services. For BBC 1, the red button channels appear in the TV channel listing as 'Stream-0' to 'Stream-6'. In the TV server config, I added these to a new TV group called 'Red Button'. I sorted the channel order and renamed the channels so that the first channel in the list was called 'BBC 1 multi-screen' (from memory this is Stream-6) followed by 'BBC 1 red button 2', 'BBC 1 red button 3', etc. One of these streams (stream-1?) is the normal BBC 1 channel so I deleted this from the group. When watching TV, if I want to go to the red button service, I just select 'change channel', press 'right' on the remote to switch to the red button group, then select the feed I want. It should actually be possible to map these key presses to a macro for the remote control, but that's getting too clever for me. You could do the same thing with BBC news; the multi-view screens are channels 'T7 STRM-0' and 'T7 STRM-1'. I haven't found the corresponding feeds, and I won't because I don't use this service.