[SBE] wrong Program PID's

[Mulliner, Rich]

Gary 

 

Give me a call and I will try and help

Richard Director Engineering WLNY TV 

I operate two full power and four LPTV sites there are four digits
channel ID (primary.secondary) for example my primary station is Ch 47
displayed as 55 and it has thee secondary's .01 .02 .03

There is also a four digit TSID transport stream ID number used to
facilitates digital receivers.  The proper number can be found at
http://www.fccinfo.com/cmdpro.php?New=New_Search which displays the FCC
data base, just do a station search.

 

Richard L. Mulliner

Director Engineering/IT

WLNY TV-55

270 South Service Road

Melville, NY 11747

Office 631-622-9471 Cell 516-456-6606 

 

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From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Gary
Stewart
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 5:27 PM
To: sbe member discussion mail list
Subject: [SBE] wrong Program PID's

 

Does anyone know how bad our PID situation may be?  Our programming is
carried on a digital LPTV station in a large city and their program
PID's do not comply with the ATSC program paradigm.  Instead of the
normal two digit  PIDS (pgm3=49/52, pgm 4=65/68 and pgm 5=81/84), they
are using 4 digit PIDS, each sub-channel having the 4 digit PID numbers
that fed through from the associated satellite feed, such as 4131 for
video and 4129 for audio.  This worries me.  First of all is it legal?
Second, are there potential reception problems?  We do have some
response from there but not a lot, so some converters boxes and digital
TV's are indeed successfully tuning in to these PID'S.  I know when we
had some wrong two digit PIDs on another station there were some brands
of converters boxes that couldn't get our audio.  What do you know about
using 4 digit PID's?

 

Gary Stewart

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