HD Suisse (1 Viewer)

[spinmar]

Yesterday it was the first day of a new HD channel on Hot bird8: HD Suisse.
So yesterday evening I tried to get such channel in media portal Tv-Engine2.
I inserted these value:
Freq = 12399000
SR = 27500 H
FEC = 3/4
Video = 180
Audio = 133
SID = 990

but I didn't get nothing.
I'd like to know if the problem is:
1) HS Suisse is a HD channel: can I receive it with Tv engine 2?
2) I didn't insert anything for:
Network Id
TID
PMT
PCR
Are they mandatory?
Best regards

 

[brunoh]

Hoi spinmar

HD suisse is a new HD-channel that is sent in DVB-S (not DVB-S2) but with H.264
It is planned, that they will change to DVB-S2 in the future.
I think that only the tvserver can work with H.264

I can receive it with the tvserver without problems.

They are sending with 720p and not in 1080i. So it is not "full HD" but it is transmitted in progressive mode and not interlaced. The reason for this format is mostly because of sport-transmissions.

Most of the programs should get sent without scrambling (FTA), but some films or big sport-events will need a swiss-tv smartcard, because of legal reasons.

The same channel is used for all 3 languages of Switzerland. Some films will not have all languages.