Some success with ITV HD on Fortec Passion

[Llew]

Hi Llew

Please could you help me - am about to see whether both my laptop and the Passion can bounce!!

Kyle

Shouldn't be appearing as a radio channel if you have the pids entered in advanced scan. Should come up as User TV.

 

[Expat]

That looks like Crystal Palace!

 

[Analoguesat]

LOL, never seen it from the top down

Llew

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v...&scene=16440871&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

 

[Llew]

Nice one. Some excellent footage of the city and environs showing on the channel. Rather watch that than the guff on regular ITV 2

 

[KyleRickards]

Hi Llew

It shows up after scan as User TV on Passion, only when I put it in Setedit, it appears on the Radio side. Then I alter the settings as per your post, which it seems to like and save (!) but everytime I click the HD box and save, after reopening it, the HD tick is missing. Is this because I am using the demo version of Setedit maybe?

Thanks
Kyle

 

[danit]

Hi Llew

It shows up after scan as User TV on Passion, only when I put it in Setedit, it appears on the Radio side. Then I alter the settings as per your post, which it seems to like and save (!) but everytime I click the HD box and save, after reopening it, the HD tick is missing. Is this because I am using the demo version of Setedit maybe?

Thanks
Kyle

use setedit version 1.01, it worked for me with SID=0, vpid=3401 vpid=3402 PMT=3400 PCR PID=3401 HD box - ticked

 

[KyleRickards]

Thanks Danit, still refuses to save the HD status, tried different USB sticks and used desktop and laptop - saves the ID changes just not HD - how annoying!!

 

[gnr]

Changed all the settings as from the above and I get nothing too.
Are they actually transmitting any test signal as i get no video or audio come up

 

[danit]

Changed all the settings as from the above and I get nothing too.
Are they actually transmitting any test signal as i get no video or audio come up

yep, transmitting regular audio & video test signal, the usual aereal views, churches, etc. perfect on my Passion HD

 

[gnr]

Well I have sound but no picture...I must be doing something wrong. setedit does not seem to save the HD (1.01)

 

[paul_hants]

Hi all, greetings, this is my first post although I've been lurking & reading the mail for some time looking for info on receivening ITV HD on a Passion.

It seems that Setedit 1.01 for the Passion looses the tick box HD flag when the channel list is saved. So 1.01 may still have some bugs with HD. I guess gnr you are loading the channel list into the STB using a USB stick? Been there done that myself :-) Last night I made up a null modem cable and transferred the channel data via RS232 which solves the problem.

But despite trying various settings for ITV HD I still can't resolve any picture and sound. Guess I'm doing something daft, I'm rather rusty having been out of the satellite scene for a few years. Paul

 

[gnr]

Well i will not be able to make up a null modem cable, if i could the computer ti too far away! with sound the settings are from the menu on the passion
astra 2A 28.2 E 11428H 27500
v-pid(8192) A-pid(3402) P-pid(3401)


changing the V-pid to 3401 is when i lose the sound and have nothing

 

[KyleRickards]

Hiya

Beginning to think I was going mad so it's interesting other people are having problems with SetEdit. Truth to be told I am probably not that interested in watching it now, but it's become obsession to get it on!

I can't go down the null modem cable route either so I wonder what the solution is...

Kyle

 

[Ratchet]

Hiya

Beginning to think I was going mad so it's interesting other people are having problems with SetEdit. Truth to be told I am probably not that interested in watching it now, but it's become obsession to get it on!

I can't go down the null modem cable route either so I wonder what the solution is...

Kyle

What version of Setedit are you using ? It works with 'V1.01 Build 119' but not with 'V1.01 Build 124'.

 

[gnr]

I take it we are all using the same software setedit 1.01
Loader version 1.14 for the passion and 1.07 software (November 2007).
If some people have it working..................

 

[gnr]

where can i get build 119 as i am using build 124

 

[Ratchet]

where can i get build 119 as i am using build 124

I got it on another forum - Sataid.net

 

[paul_hants]

I thought I was going mad too. It's amazing how something which should be fairly simple can provide so many hours of entertainment!

Fortunately I have a laptop as well as the desktop which is in another room. It was a bit of a faff, the laptop has no serial port of course so I first had to persuade a USB serial adapter I already had to work with Vista(!). It is a Prolific based OEM one. Going to the Prolific web site their policy is not to make Vista drivers available to end users (why not?!) I eventually found one that worked on a third party manufacturer's site. And then I made the null modem cable and of course got the connections wrong first time. Such fun and so much more interesting than going out for a pint last night!

Hopefully Wolfgang Litzinger the Setedit author will fix the save problem soon. I emailed him via the Setedit web site yesterday to alert him to it in case he wasn't already aware.

 

[gnr]

Thanks but the site will not let you register and all the forum posts are private so do not show up

 

[KyleRickards]

Just downloaded 119, sorted! Now have ITV HD!! But no sound... Is there anything at the moment being broadcast?

London looks quite nice in HD.

GNR - I had that problem the other morning but it allowed me to register kind-of mid morning so it will let you in eventually.

Many thanks to everyone who have saved my sanity over ITV!

Kyle