No no, what I mean was people that buy those illegal box and illegal stream. then complain when their stream blur or stutter 🤣

I am still curious about Motor Racing channel. I presume it's an in company channel since I can't find it elsewhere, unlike Eurosport and Horizon Sports

I clicked on it but nothing happened 😅

I have to whitelist a number of servers in my adblock DNS it seems. Now it works

Edit: I feel rather sorry for Transvision subscribers tho. Of the three sports replacement channel, two of them being free channel feels like cheating

This post has been edited by linkinstreet: Sep 26 2021, 04:43 PM

Can't even find a Wiki entry of it. I presume it's similar to Pluto TV, altho unlike Pluto can't seem to see who funded it.

This post has been edited by linkinstreet: Sep 26 2021, 07:14 PM

nani the fuck? Betul betul mau ikat orang masuk kontrak.

End of coverage video package by Fox Sports Asia

This post has been edited by linkinstreet: Sep 26 2021, 11:08 PM

http://www.apsattv.com/
Was browsing this where they keep track of Asia Pacific Satelite TV, and noticed that Astro Arena 2 was tested way back in June

16th June 2021
"Measat 3b 91.5E 10852 V "Astro Arena 2" has started on , Videoguard."

22nd June 2021
"Measat 3b 91.5E 10852 V "Astro Arena 2" has left again.

So Astro was already planning for Fox Sports replacement earlier in the year

This post has been edited by linkinstreet: Sep 28 2021, 07:13 AM

Oh didn't realise that. i was watching Euro on RTM at the time 😅

@joshhd I was wondering, previously if we were to use the new Plug and Play Box and uses our own ISP (not using Astro Broadband), you will loose access to the listed channels.
Since majority of these channels are shutting down since they are under Fox/Disney (Other than NHK and Sky, which will remain unavailable), would the replacement channels be available?

Techmoan did a video about wireless HDMI with his cable TV. You would loose some quality, but you can use the same remote control

I wonder if the Astro Decoder would output on both HDMI and RCA at the same time. If it does, you won't need a HDMI -> RCA converter.

The Astro TV guide API has been updated with Arena 2 and SPOTV


Seems that Aussie Supercars has also been licensed by SPOTV


Arena 2 will be filled with the Thai League and Bundesliga for this weekend

Kvision Indonesia has updated their line up of Fox replacements. Seems similar to Astro (with HBO), with two in house sports channels by MNC

So the mystery is solved. WSL will be shown on Supersport 5

It's due to what kind of subs are provided by the network to Astro. Subs are usually PGS (presentation graphic stream), a standard that are used in DVD or Blu Ray where they are images of text instead of actual text. This comes from before there was a Unicode and UTF-8 standard, and it's easier to make images than to have text subtitles that would end up as boxes for people that don't have the correct encoding.

The format of the subtitle is the location of where it would be placed on screen, and the aspect ratio of the subtitle and the aspect ratio of the media. Some of these networks never really upgraded from a decade ago, and keep using 4:3 subtitles in 4:3 aspect ratio, hence why you end up with stretched sub on TV. Some has proper 16:9 subtitles, but still set the ratio to 4:3 so you have the subs being compressed.
Web players like Astro Go usually would OCR these subtitles (convert from image back to text since HTML 5 does not support PGS, usually SRT or WEBVTT) so you would get the correct ratio

I wonder if astro are transcoding it on the fly depending on the device, since PGS is just similar to DVB_Subtitle

https://flussonic.com/doc/live-streaming/co...tles-to-webvtt/
"Such subtitles are supported by some set-top-boxes, some TV sets, and by the VLC media player, but are not supported by iPhone or Android devices"

BBC Player uses this live conversion, since if you watch any of it's on demand videos, you would find that it will have hundreds of VTT files being loaded in the background, each VTT file is just one line of subtitle


I needed to make a special script to fetch all these different subtitle files and combine them into one. I presume that the original subtitle is DVB, and the system would convert each images one at a time, leading to multiple text files instead of just one subtitle file

I presume it's also limited to 25FPS, even on the 1080p stream?

HEVC does not actually need expensive hardware per se. Even cheap chipsets can support it right now. The issue is as you said, it also need to support browsers that still uses the Apple HLS standard, that does not support HEVC. FWIW, Malaysia usually only follows whatever they do in the UK/EU, and there only 4K UHD channels are streamed using HEVC (they don't have any choice really). So unless UK/EU changes, we won't be changing either

This post has been edited by linkinstreet: Sep 30 2021, 03:12 PM

Ah njir, Arena 2 is not free on Sooka