Lazarus
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Adam what do I need to do to configure OSCAM so my Primo will read my FS card? many thanksDug out my Fransat card, all working fine in the Edision Primo with OSCam. It took a little while to get going because the entitlements were out of date, but after a few minutes on TF1 it had updated (all still in the Edision) and is clearing all the channels now!
Does anyone know what has changed with the encoding of the France 2,3,4 channels on 5W?
The pictures are broken up but, if I record them, MPV will decode and display them properly.
Imagine all those people, trying to realign their antenna!Yes I’m getting the same problem using a PC satellite card and watching through Kodi too. I can transcode the stream to another format and the image works but it’s completely pixelated watching the original live version of all the channels on the France Télévisions mux.
Hopefully they’ll fix the problem soon as presumably it’s going out on the terrestrial network like this too!
Someone on a dutch forum said he doesn’t have problems with those channels on the multistream.I assumed that it was a legitimate encoding, because the recorded transport stream plays correctly on my 5 year old Samsung TV and on MPV.
It doesn't play correctly on the Primo media player.
I hope they fix it soon, if they fix it. Because if there are no problems on the French DTTV network, why should they fix it?Very strange! It’s definitely something to do with the H264 video encoding now being used by the channels, as the audio streams all work perfectly.
The FFMPEG encoder can obviously decode it fine as well seeing as I can get perfect video if I transcode the channels to a different codec through TVHeadend (which uses FFMPEG as its re-encoding software).
There must be some kind of bug with whatever encoder they are using and the decoding hardware in certain devices like the Primo IP and the Kodi box I’m using (which decodes H264 on its hardware graphics chip, usually perfectly!)
Hopefully they’ll fix the problem soon as presumably it’s going out on the terrestrial network like this too!
It could be 25p. The BBC encodes as 25p on DVB-T/T2 but only when the source material is 25p. The effect seems full time on the France channels.
Since these are for distribution not DTH, there is no reason why they should stop, if this is the cause.
It could be h.264 level 5 when broadcasts are normally level 4. This seems less likely.
At least these boxes don't sulk when they get something the can't decode. So it would be possible to stream it or record it. The primo will also record 4k, so it will probably stream that too, but I haven't tried it.