ITV3+1, ITV4+1 now full service

[EEPhil]

It's on a different mux. as are all the things that have just become h.264 - see #6.

I lose track of what's where. I should have saved copies of the digitalbitrate page on a weekly basis, but I didn't.

 

[prpr]

I lose track of what's where.

It helps when you see the output of my logger which makes it obvious. Here is just an extract of the 99 lines it spewed yesterday morning:

09/16 09:38:13 SDT: Service  8345 added TSID  8204 ONID 9018 TV SD H.264 run 4 pf 1 sch 1 "ITV2+1"
09/16 09:38:13 Relocate Service 15952 TSID 12293 ONID 9018 to Service  8345 TSID  8204 ONID 9018
09/16 09:38:13 SDT: Service  8347 added TSID  8204 ONID 9018 TV SD H.264 run 4 pf 1 sch 1 "ITV4+1"
09/16 09:38:13 Relocate Service 15920 TSID 12293 ONID 9018 to Service  8347 TSID  8204 ONID 9018
09/16 09:38:13 SDT: Service  8462 added TSID  8204 ONID 9018 TV SD H.264 run 4 pf 1 sch 1 "E4 Extra"
09/16 09:38:13 Relocate Service 22368 TSID 20544 ONID 9018 to Service  8462 TSID  8204 ONID 9018
09/16 09:38:13 SDT: Service  8464 added TSID  8204 ONID 9018 TV SD H.264 run 4 pf 1 sch 1 "Film4+1"
09/16 09:38:13 Relocate Service 22464 TSID 20544 ONID 9018 to Service  8464 TSID  8204 ONID 9018
09/16 09:38:15 NIT: Service  8464 added LCN  47 TSID  8204 TV SD H.264
09/16 09:38:15 NIT: Service  8462 added LCN  31 TSID  8204 TV SD H.264
09/16 09:38:15 NIT: Service  8345 added LCN  29 TSID  8204 TV SD H.264
09/16 09:38:15 NIT: Service  8347 added LCN  59 TSID  8204 TV SD H.264
09/16 09:38:15 NIT: Service 15920 changed LCN from 59 to 799
09/16 09:38:15 NIT: Service 15952 changed LCN from 29 to 798
09/16 09:38:19 NIT: Service 22464 changed LCN from 47 to 796
09/16 09:38:19 NIT: Service 22368 changed LCN from 31 to 797

The muppets at Freeview didn't mention any of the above on their changes page, nor did they see fit to mention the removal of the streamed channels wedotv (LCN 275) and Outdoor Channel (LCN 291).
The first of these is hereby renamed wedontdotv or wedidtv or wediddotvbutnowwedontbecauseitwassocrapnobodywatchedit.

 

[EEPhil]

wediddotvbutnowwedontbecauseitwassocrapnobodywatchedit.

Funny how my eyes miss stuff. Might explain a lot.
The things that stick out in that - scrap*, watch, edit. No wonder I get things wrong!
* and that isn't even there s[o]crap.

 

[prpr]

Weren't the C4 channels already showing full-time in MPEG2? So changing to H.264+AAC should mean space for 4 services instead of 2.

None of them were on PSB2, so it's irrelevant. It's space on that specific mux. that needs considering.

tunefix-update 1.0.71 has appeared

1.0.171

and will presumably enable all the MPEG4 versions.

Natürlich.

 

[Black Hole]

Natürlich.

Use of language other than the lingua franca (excluding phrases adopted into the lexicon) shall be assigned a Linguistic Pretentiousness Quotient on the FMRL scale defined by the following formula:

P = (1-F^2) * f
where f is a measure of the speaker's/writer's fluency in the local language in the range 0 to 1, and F is the speaker's/writer's fluency in the foreign language.

This counterpoints the Linguistic Gratuitousness Quotient, defined as:

G = f * F^2

 

[prpr]

The muppets at Freeview

And to complete the saga of their incompetence, they are claiming:
Move Great! Player from LCN 63 to 62
Add Lucky Cat TV on LCN 63

The only problem is that Great! Movies is already on LCN 62, and hasn't gone away.
Selecting that just tries to open a web page thing, which obviously fails on the HDR T2, so it looks like it's a Data channel masquerading as TV.
The regulator should clamp down on things like this, but the regulator is effing useless, as usual.

 

[prpr]

P = (1-F^2) * f
where f is a measure of the speaker's/writer's fluency in the local language in the range 0 to 1, and F is the speaker's/writer's fluency in the foreign language.

This counterpoints the Linguistic Gratuitousness Quotient, defined as:

G = f * F^2

I estimate f as near enough 1 to make no damned difference and F to be approximately 0.02 (that might be being generous, although I did get a C in my GCSE).
I did however get an A in Maths, so to simplify, P = f - G
Therefore G = 0.0004 and P = 0.9996

I wonder where Del Boy comes on the scale, relative?

 

[EEPhil]

Use of language other than the lingua franca (excluding phrases adopted into the lexicon) shall be assigned a Linguistic Pretentiousness Quotient ...

Was für ein Schwachsinn. (thanks to Google Translate)

 

[prpr]

Do you get out what you put in having been round the loop? Sometimes, sometimes not. "Nonsense" just converted to "Unsinn" and back, so what is "Schwachsinn"?

"In everyday language, Unsinn and Schwachsinn often mean the same thing—referring to nonsense, tomfoolery, or rubbish—but Schwachsinn is distinctly cruder and stronger."

 

[EEPhil]

I typed in Bull , it gave me that German text. It translated back to English as nonsense. Very rarely do I get a translation A->B then B->A (A,B are languages) and recover the original text. Sometimes it pays not to over analyse things.