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  • GreeboGreebo Posts: 1,418
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    Adam_Cj wrote: »
    just to let you know that I changed my Ariel extension lead and everything is back to normal. yay! :)

    Excellent. If you ever notice Fire Hit TV on channel 60 burst into life please do tell us - they do seem to be having to wait a very long time for their fibre to be put in.
  • GreeboGreebo Posts: 1,418
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    Fire Hit still showing their Video Lock Error screen.

    In more positive news, the digitaluk postcode checker now has prediction data for the G-MAN mux - e.g.

    http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/coveragechecker/main/trade/M28+1HP/NA/0/NA

    the G-MAN and L-MAN muxes have data if you scroll down the mux list.
  • marria01marria01 Posts: 437
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    Greebo wrote: »
    Fire Hit still showing their Video Lock Error screen.
    Their twitter feed is awfully quiet too. Have they all gone home?
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 674
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    Fire Hit actually sprang into life for a day or two (last month I think) and then died on its backside again.

    A complete joke.
  • GreeboGreebo Posts: 1,418
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    The G_MAN mux seems to be down at the moment for me - no sign of any signal strength on a couple of Freeview HD devices.

    I don't know when it went off, it has been too weak for a while for my media pc (on long cable runs) to get a reliable lock on it so I don't have any scripts checking it directly. I'm pretty sure it was running yesterday. The service data is still being shared across to the other muxes.

    Is it off for anyone else? Hopefully they are making some improvements.
  • marria01marria01 Posts: 437
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    Off here as well. Some needs to go up and stick a quid in the 'leccy meter.
  • GreeboGreebo Posts: 1,418
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    Not the best of days to lose the mux, given the rescans that are going on...
  • AngusMastAngusMast Posts: 5,153
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    Maybe they've run out of power sockets :D
  • marria01marria01 Posts: 437
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    Greebo wrote: »
    Not the best of days to lose the mux, given the rescans that are going on...

    To be fair, it's only the spods that are retuning today. Unless you have an HD capable receiver, there's nothing to gain from it surely?
  • kjhskj75kjhskj75 Posts: 2,972
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    Greebo wrote: »
    Fire Hit still showing their Video Lock Error screen.

    In more positive news, the digitaluk postcode checker now has prediction data for the G-MAN mux - e.g.

    http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/coveragechecker/main/trade/M28+1HP/NA/0/NA

    the G-MAN and L-MAN muxes have data if you scroll down the mux list.

    And it accurately predicts that I can't get G_MAN - even though I live in the city centre.
  • tomeetomee Posts: 2,891
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    https://twitter.com/ManchesterTVNet
    ManchesterTVNetwork ‏@ManchesterTVNet 1h
    We are aware of a fault which our engineers are fixing. Normal service will resume ASAP !! Thank you for your patience
  • GreeboGreebo Posts: 1,418
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    The G_MAN mux came back up approx 11:54 this morning - it is now running with 5 channels, Sony SAB has been removed from LCN 53.

    I also note that LCN 53 was removed from the service data at around 10:20, so it took another 90 minutes before they got the mux up again.
  • chrisychrisy Posts: 9,418
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    Hmm, is the SonySAB IPTV channel still "coming soon", as it has been for a year?!
  • a516a516 Posts: 5,241
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    chrisy wrote: »
    Hmm, is the SonySAB IPTV channel still "coming soon", as it has been for a year?!

    Yes...
  • GreeboGreebo Posts: 1,418
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    LCN 53 - LAMHE has appeared (at approx 11am) on the G_MAN mux. No video or audio pids yet in place, so not really up and running yet.

    Edit: 12:09 EPG data now in place
  • GreeboGreebo Posts: 1,418
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    LAMHE now up and running with audio and video:

    mediainfo :
    Video #4
    ID                                       : 2328 (0x918)
    Menu ID                                  : 30273 (0x7641)
    Format                                   : MPEG Video
    Format version                           : Version 2
    Format profile                           : Main@Main
    Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
    Format settings, Matrix                  : Custom
    Format settings, GOP                     : M=3, N=12
    Codec ID                                 : 2
    Duration                                 : 880ms
    Bit rate mode                            : Variable
    Maximum bit rate                         : 2 500 Kbps
    Width                                    : 720 pixels
    Height                                   : 576 pixels
    Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
    Frame rate                               : 25.000 fps
    Standard                                 : PAL
    Color space                              : YUV
    Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
    Bit depth                                : 8 bits
    Scan type                                : Interlaced
    Scan order                               : Top Field First
    Compression mode                         : Lossy
    
    Audio #3
    ID                                       : 2329 (0x919)
    Menu ID                                  : 30273 (0x7641)
    Format                                   : MPEG Audio
    Format version                           : Version 1
    Format profile                           : Layer 2
    Codec ID                                 : 4
    Duration                                 : 1s 248ms
    Bit rate mode                            : Constant
    Bit rate                                 : 128 Kbps
    Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
    Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
    Compression mode                         : Lossy
    Delay relative to video                  : -27mn 11s
    Stream size                              : 19.5 KiB (0%)
    Language                                 : English
    
    Menu #6
    ID                                       : 270 (0x10E)
    Menu ID                                  : 30273 (0x7641)
    Duration                                 : 12s 809ms
    List                                     : 2328 (0x918) (MPEG Video) / 2329 (0x919) (MPEG Audio, English)
    Language                                 :  / English
    Service name                             : LAMHE
    Service type                             : digital television
    
  • GreeboGreebo Posts: 1,418
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    Hmm - there maybe some slight signs of life from Fire Hit TV...

    An audio PID has appeared for their PMT - and the lack of lock message has vanished from the colour bars. The audio is silent - but finally there, they've been running with only a video PID for quite some time.

    .. and now (17:43) they've switched to a blue screen.
    Video #1
    ID                                       : 32 (0x20)
    Menu ID                                  : 30145 (0x75C1)
    Format                                   : MPEG Video
    Format version                           : Version 2
    Format profile                           : Main@Main
    Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
    Format settings, Matrix                  : Custom
    Format settings, GOP                     : M=3, N=12
    Codec ID                                 : 2
    Duration                                 : 12s 520ms
    Bit rate mode                            : Variable
    Maximum bit rate                         : 15.0 Mbps
    Width                                    : 720 pixels
    Height                                   : 576 pixels
    Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
    Frame rate                               : 25.000 fps
    Standard                                 : PAL
    Color space                              : YUV
    Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
    Bit depth                                : 8 bits
    Scan type                                : Interlaced
    Scan order                               : Top Field First
    Compression mode                         : Lossy
    
    Audio #1
    ID                                       : 33 (0x21)
    Menu ID                                  : 30145 (0x75C1)
    Format                                   : MPEG Audio
    Format version                           : Version 1
    Format profile                           : Layer 2
    Mode                                     : Joint stereo
    Mode extension                           : Intensity Stereo + MS Stereo
    Codec ID                                 : 4
    Duration                                 : 12s 744ms
    Bit rate mode                            : Constant
    Bit rate                                 : 192 Kbps
    Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
    Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
    Compression mode                         : Lossy
    Delay relative to video                  : -1s 46ms
    Stream size                              : 299 KiB (1%)
    Language                                 : English
    
    Menu #4
    ID                                       : 257 (0x101)
    Menu ID                                  : 30145 (0x75C1)
    List                                     : 32 (0x20) (MPEG Video) / 33 (0x21) (MPEG Audio, English)
    Language                                 :  / English
    Service name                             : FIRE HIT TV
    Service type                             : digital television
    Maximum bit rate                         : 2908800
    
    
  • GreeboGreebo Posts: 1,418
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    17:44 - Now running with video and audio. There are occasional glitches in the feed, but I guess they may still be tweaking things. For the record, first (part) song played - One Direction, Story of my Life.
  • marria01marria01 Posts: 437
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    There now appears to be actual moving pictures and sound on Fire.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 674
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    Re: Fire. I have pics (which occasionally freeze) but no sound.
  • GreeboGreebo Posts: 1,418
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    Now showing a static video slate: 24 HOUR HIT MUSIC STARTS 6 JANUARY Audio is running music, still briefly glitching every 60-90 secs.

    Last night I looked a couple of times- once saw a blue screen, the other a music video with graphics overlayed- including a clock.
  • Martyn1Martyn1 Posts: 576
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    Fire Hits launches Monday 6th Jan. Currently playing VERY LOUD music over caption.

    Lets see how long this channel lasts.

    Hopefully they will play better selections of videos compared to MTV &The box channels!
  • anthony davidanthony david Posts: 14,461
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    Someone on the UK Free TV forum said that the transmitter was off air over Christmas and didn't come back until last Friday. I noticed it had gone but as the signal is weak here I wasn't sure if it had just gone low level. If the transmitter was off and no forum members noticed, I wonder how many viewers it has got.
  • GreeboGreebo Posts: 1,418
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    Someone on the UK Free TV forum said that the transmitter was off air over Christmas and didn't come back until last Friday. I noticed it had gone but as the signal is weak here I wasn't sure if it had just gone low level. If the transmitter was off and no forum members noticed, I wonder how many viewers it has got.

    I wasn't around over Christmas to confirm it, but my media pc lost signal for the G_MAN mux at approx 16:10 on Christmas day. I had to disable all tests of the mux when I finally found it as it was filling my inbox up with fault messages. I don't know when it came back, however it seemed back to normal by 4pm on Jan 4th when I re-enabled some of the tests.

    I haven't been keeping an eye on Fire - but it does seem to be up and running today - music videos and no glitches. EPG entry has a sms number so I guess they really have launched. Now into an ad break- so this can't still be a test.

    Also their twitter account has woken up again:

    From https://twitter.com/FireHitTV/status/420236717090562048 -
    New hours & Shows for 2014. 8AM-3AM all week. @allanlake 4-6 M-F, @MitchellPeryer 10-1 Sun. Local News from Feb, Live MCR daily +more soon
  • marria01marria01 Posts: 437
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    If the transmitter was off and no forum members noticed, I wonder how many viewers it has got.

    I think you're confusing Digital Spy forum members with normal people.
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