Hi Barry, Am Samstag, den 17.01.2009, 01:41 +0100 schrieb BOUWSMA Barry: > Hi Dmitry, thank you for your mail! > > I am posting part of it to the linux-dvb list, in case someone > there can give more or better information than I do... > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, vdp wrote: > > > BB> some random 8-bit chars to make sure this gets tagged as utf-8... > > sory, it's really Cyrillic - I can read it with > > code_table_windows_1251, not like UTF-8, but strange and interesting ;-) > > Off-topic here, but to explain -- > In the more-than-ten years since I last used the mail program > I am using now, the language and multi-lingual support has > greatly improved -- back then, it would make no effort to try > and display your Cyrillic characters, be they in KOI8-U, or > ISO-8859-5, or whatever - if I had selected to display, say > 8859-1, or 8859-2 for Czech. > > But today, even with my use of the text console and no windowing > system, I can display Cyrillic, Polish, Slovak, French, Hebrew, > Greek -- all at the same time. Yay! > > However, when I sent out a message with Greek characters, I saw > in my local copy of it, that it was sent as 8859-7. But I do > not know if many mailers are able to understand how to convert > from that and display properly with a Unicode font. > > The same way, when I sent the Ukranian text, it could be that > some people in western europe, or outside europe entirely, might > not see the characters correctly, because my mailer was set up > to use the smallest possible unique character set tagging, > rather than UTF-8 which has become far more common now (yes, > I should fix my mailer configuration). > > So, in order to give the message a UTF-8 character set tagging, > so that it could be displayed simply by any utf-8-aware > xterm with a -10646 font, or on a text console with Unicode > enabled and a font that uses as many possible characters in > the 512 that are available, with a mailer that does not know > how to convert from 8859-x into Unicode, I needed to insert a > few German and Greek and Hebrew characters that are not common > to 8859-5. > > And that is why I did not send only the Cyrillic characters, > in case some mailer fails, and displays them as western-european > or something else, the way I used to see things... > > This is easy to set up with X as there are plenty of -10646 > fonts available in the years since I contributed an 8859-2 > font; for the very nice large font of a 25x80 text console on > a nice large monitor that does not strain my eyes, I like > SCREEN_FONT=/usr/local/src/fonty-rg-0.5/LatCyrGr-16.psf.gz > that makes many useful g00gle results readable to me. > > Again, sorry for going off-topic for so long... > > > Now, to your question, which maybe some linux-dvb reader can > offer more help... > > > > now work next scheme: > > I tzap to some channel and read stream with emcast from /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > > but it is only one channel - I would like stream all transponder > > > > Could you help, with advice - is it possible ? (receive all > > transponder with several channels simultaneous at the same time) > > Yes, this is very possible. > > The one thing to be certain of, is that you are not using a > USB-1 device, as the bandwidth of USB 1 is less than most DVB-T > multiplexes today -- usually you can fit at least two services > without problems, though, over USB 1. > > > The special ``PID'' of 8192 is used by, for example, `dvbstream' > meaning to send the entire datastream with all PIDs to its > output. It will also do all the tuning for you. > > Or, if you know all the PIDs that are used on a particular > frequency, you can usually list all of them of interest, up > to the limit of the hardware PID filter, if there is one. > > This can save some space, as PID 8191 usually takes up some > bandwidth for null packets to fill the available bandwidth, > and there may be unneeded services, such as data, teletext, > or whatever, that you do not care about. > > For example, here is what I would use to record three of > the RTVi services which are sometimes FTA on Hotbirds: > /home/beer/bin/dvbstream ${OPERA1} -T \ > -s 27500 -p h -f 12322 -I 2 -D 2 \ > -o:${RECROOT:-/opt}/Partial_Transport_Streams/detskii_mir-fs-${DATE}.ts \ > 0 44 -v 45 -a 46 40 41 42 47 48 49 $* > > (I am actually guessing that the last 6 PIDs are correct, > as I only recorded the one service...) > > Then you only need to select which programme you wish during > playback with your media player (you may need to record some > additional PIDs to see the service name). Or you can split > the three services into three separate files. > > > I use the `8192' PID when I want the entire stream, but if > you want to use `tzap' or similar, then whatever program you > use after that needs to set all the PIDs -- for example, > `dvbtraffic' after I've tuned to a DVB-H multiplex... > -PID--FREQ-----BANDWIDTH-BANDWIDTH- > 0000 20 p/s 3 kb/s 31 kbit 0 > 0011 3 p/s 0 kb/s 5 kbit 17 > 0012 23 p/s 4 kb/s 35 kbit 18 > 0015 1 p/s 0 kb/s 2 kbit 21 > 0020 19 p/s 3 kb/s 29 kbit 32 > [snip] > 1fff 1533 p/s 281 kb/s 2306 kbit 8191 > 2000 6609 p/s 1213 kb/s 9940 kbit 8192 > > > Other people would have to suggest programs which are able > to do this for you, as I only know about `dvbstream' and > have not tried using anything else... > > > barry bouwsma > (as always, writing too much) > don't take it serious. I wonder how much longer people will buy shark cadavers produced in the UK, until they realize that it are only shark cadavers. 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