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Getting BBC interactive on a FTA receiver
I thought it might be a good idea to get all this in one place.
A FTA receiver can't use Sky 'red button' software but the interactive screens and multiscreens are available. They need to be treated like channels. This means you can select them a lot more quickly than you can with a Sky box.
You need to tune them in manually. (See your manual )
Most automatic scans won't get them.
To do manual tuning you generally need . . . .
A frequency
Polorisation (H or V)
A symbol rate
FEC (Foreward error correction)
VPID (Video programme indentity number)
APID (Audio programme identity number)
BBC interactive 'channels'
12441 V
27500
2/3
BBC Multiscreens
11954 H
27500
2/3
Other interactive channels (rarely used)
Assign each one a channel number on your EPG. You will need to name each one, for instance 'BBCi1, BBCi2, News Multiscreen' etc. Then you can select them whenever you want, as quickly as any other channel.
For instance I have the BBC interactive channels on EPG numbers 51 to 57.
No 'Please wait' or 'Blue menu' banners. No red buttons!!!
A FTA receiver can't use Sky 'red button' software but the interactive screens and multiscreens are available. They need to be treated like channels. This means you can select them a lot more quickly than you can with a Sky box.
You need to tune them in manually. (See your manual )
Most automatic scans won't get them.
To do manual tuning you generally need . . . .
A frequency
Polorisation (H or V)
A symbol rate
FEC (Foreward error correction)
VPID (Video programme indentity number)
APID (Audio programme identity number)
BBC interactive 'channels'
12441 V
27500
2/3
- Service...VPID APID
- BBCi 1....2305 2306
- BBCi 2....2321 2322
- BBCi 3....2325 2326
- BBCi 4....2329 2330
- BBCi 5....2333 2334
- BBCi 6....2337 2338
- BBCi 7....2345 2346
BBC Multiscreens
11954 H
27500
2/3
- News Multiscreen 2306 2308
- Other Multiscreen 2320 2321
Other interactive channels (rarely used)
- Test D7-3 2338 2340
- Test D7-4 2342 2343
Assign each one a channel number on your EPG. You will need to name each one, for instance 'BBCi1, BBCi2, News Multiscreen' etc. Then you can select them whenever you want, as quickly as any other channel.
For instance I have the BBC interactive channels on EPG numbers 51 to 57.
No 'Please wait' or 'Blue menu' banners. No red buttons!!!
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Great help for many FM's,with fta receivers.
Maybe,you should request,that it gets posted as a sticky,so it doesn't get lost in the swarms of daily threads.
If that doesn't work then you will have to go for an 'advanced' scan (or whatever it is called on a particular receiver) You need the VPID (Video) and APID (Audio) as mentioned in post #1
Sometimes even this doesn't work and you might need to input the 'PCR'. This sort of synchronises the picture and sound. The number used for these stream is the same as the VPID.
You can safely ignore NIDS and SIDS and any other numbers you may come across.
I have a digibox, and can get the multiscreen up but what to do next, i have sound from one of the six screens, but i cant change that, tried every button on my remote but nothing changes.
Any help would be great thanks.
Thomas
They are NOT generally available to Sky Digiboxes, so stop wasting your time trying to get them.
OCTOBER
Saturday 7
Football, England v Macedonia
1645-1900 BST, choice of commentary, highlights and Your Shout
Saturday 21-29
Snooker Grand Prix
Live coverage of two tables from Aberdeen at the following times:
From 1145 BST on 21-24 October
From 1330 BST on 25-28 October
NOVEMBER
Thursday 2-Friday 3
World Bowls Tour
1500-1800 GMT daily, Live coverage
Sunday 5
Rugby Union, England v New Zealand
1500-1810 GMT, audio, highlights and post-match forum
Saturday 11-Sunday 12
Football - FA Cup first round
24 hrs, goals round-up
Saturday 25
Wales v New Zealand
1645-1930 GMT audio, highlights and post-match forum
DECEMBER
Saturday 2-Sunday 3
Football, FA Cup second round
24 hrs, goals round-up
I forgot to mention that the bbc sometimes rotate the audio channels on their interactive screens hence when you tune into the tennis or golf you get no sound.
My cheap Eur45 Kaon 220 found all BBCi channels automatically as well as plently of other sky feeds from astra2.
I also had to search for FTA channels only.
However, sometimes the sound is missing, sometime it's there - is there any reason why? Could it have something to do with the PCR PID?
All we need now is some sort of programme guide for these channels. The BBC must have internal schedules, is there any way of getting at them?
John
ha! All they showed was that concert, again and again!
Also screen says "this channel is scrambled or unavailable"
or am I doing something daft :eek:
(Fortec Star Lifetime Classic Prehistoric Version; Kaon KSF200 that thinks it's a KSF230 and Silvercrest SL65 Little Beauty)
I have also played with a couple of 'cheapy' FTA boxes that don't have any of these problems.
Any suggestions anyone??
Regards - Tim
You can in all Boxes I've ever used.
Regards - Tim