Hi.
Has anyone got this working on gb Teletext?
I get "page 100-00 not found" and the current time (updating). I get the same if I select a different page
thanks
Simon
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 07:19 +0100, Simon Baxter wrote:
By gb do you mean in the UK? I didn't think any of the teletext stuff worked over here at present because it uses different standards to the rest of Europe and no one over here has really done much with it yet.
Maybe I'm wrong!
Cheers,
Laz
Yeah, UK.
Oh? ok. I'll remove that plugin then! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurence Abbott" laz@club-burniston.co.uk To: "Klaus Schmidinger's VDR" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [vdr] osdteletext page 100-00 not found
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 11:00 +0100, Simon Baxter wrote:
Yeah, UK.
Oh? ok. I'll remove that plugin then!
I could be wrong: it may now work. I haven't looked into it for a couple of years. I think the UK dvb teletext uses MHEG encoding, so look for that in the source or documentation.
There is also some textual information transmitted with the radio stations which isn't available to vdr at present.
Can anyone else shed any light on the current status?
Cheers,
Laz
Laurence Abbott <laz <at> club-burniston.co.uk> writes:
The OSDTeletext plugin works with traditional teletext (videotex) services like CEEFAX. Unfortunately, the BBC has seen fit to cease broadcasting CEEFAX on all of its digital distributions, instead giving us the frankly horribly unreliable BBCi, which consists of MHEG applications on DVB-T and OpenTV applications on DVB-S. To see a working teletext service on Astra 2, tune to S4C Digidol, and view page 400 through the teletext plugin. TravelTV and the like may provide teletext on DVB-T, but I've never tried to find out.
On the continent, DVB-S services such as ARD use the MHP system to distribute "digital text services" and there is a vdr plugin that can (allegedly) deal with these in a very elementary way. However, it's a bugger to install - I've tried multiple times and have failed at one point or another and have eventually had to give up.
There is also apparently a framework for a MHEG viewer available for Linux, but I don't think it's anywhere near usable. Despite the name, Sky's OpenTV implementation is very much proprietary, so there is not much chance at all of anyone writing a plugin to get at the BBCi content delivered using OpenTV.
The texts transmitted with the radio stations on Astra 2 is contained in a private stream, I think. I don't have a regular DVB-T STB, so I don't knwo if the same texts are transmitted on Freeview.
Iwan
I demand that Iwan Davies may or may not have written...
[snip]
They probably are; certainly, the text which is broadcast over DVB-T is the same as on DAB but I'm certain that it's wrapped in MHEG. It couldn't really be otherwise, given that there are also channel logos.
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