Getting to know whats my digital satellite bitrate broadcast

[chickens]

I would really want to find a way to find out what does my digital satellite tv provider broadcast bitrate quality. My capture card box says" Data Broadcasting Support-While live video is being displayed, extract data from TV signals (Teletext, Bitcast, Intercast)". Does that mean that my card can find the bitrate quality?... If not...what way will i get to find the bitrate quality my provider broadcast.? Thanks in advance...please help.

[Marco33]

I guess you could record some footage than run it through Bitrate viewer.

[txpharoah]

Who is your provider? It differs.

The MPEG2 files are NOT DVD-compliant.
They are not even standard MPEG2, but a mutation because the DSS standard was developed before the MPEG2 standard (MPEG2 still in experiment stages, big reason it offer interlace).

Some are 480x480 (Dish fits here), some are 544x480, so are 704x480. Bitrates vary from channel to channel, much as the audio does. The HSN gets less quality than PPV, etc.

Plus realize only PART of the signal is broadcast at full resolution. Some parts of if are lower. You get the luminace and chrominance in separate pieces.

Read this if you're interested:
http://www.henry-davis.com/CSD9512:MPEG.html
AND
http://www.coolstf.com/mpeg/

Have fun. It's long and complex.

And FYI, if you're capturing, you're capturing a new file, not transferring the DSS signal to your system. (You'd need one of those illegal devices to rip the signal direct to your system, and because of that reason, I cannot further explain. Even then it's buggy, and the only legal version of it was a PCI card that I never saw again past the development stages some years back. PS- If this item does exist, please correct me and give me a link to a store that sells them legally.)