{"id":888,"date":"2013-08-22T01:02:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T22:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=888"},"modified":"2013-08-22T10:04:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T07:04:28","slug":"digital-free-to-air-tv-now-available-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=888","title":{"rendered":"Digital (Free-To-Air) TV now available in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, Digital TV broadcasting has started in Uganda.  Below is a list of channels I was able to scan for the Kampala area.  See my <a href=\"http:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=883\" title=\"Previous Post\" target=\"_blank\">previous post<\/a> on how to scan for these channels.<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\n        service = UBC TV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = UBC STAR TV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = East AFRICA TV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = ITV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = CITIZEN TV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = WBS TV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = BUKEDDE TV 1 (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = BUKEDDE TV 2 (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = URBAN TV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = RECORD TV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = TOP TV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = NTV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = UBC TV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = LIGHT TV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = MIRACLE TV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = CCTV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = NBS (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = CAPITAL TV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = BOUQUET SERVER 1 (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = BOUQUET SERVER 2 (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = RTV (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = KBC (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = TBC 1 (UCC)<br \/>\n\tservice = BBC WORLD (UCC)<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nOf these, only six (TV: UBC, EATV, ITV, WBS, BUKEDDE-1, and NTV) are currently broadcasting via DVB-T.<\/p>\n<p>And the fun part for the Linux people out there &#8211; <em>How to play these channels<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>If using VLC, create a channels.conf file (i.e. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/zikusooka\/dvbt-scan\" title=\"DVB-T scan utility\">scan<\/a> using Xine format).  When done, simply run:<\/p>\n<p><code>#> vlc .xine\/channels.conf<\/code><\/p>\n<p>All the channels will be populated as a playlist. Then select your favorite channel to watch.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: If you are playing using a remote SSH session i.e. embedded device: something like this will work:<\/p>\n<p><code>vlc -I dummy -V xv -f --width 1024 --height 768 dvb-t:\/\/ :dvb-caching=300 :dvb-frequency=474000000 :dvb-inversion=-1 :dvb-bandwidth=8 :dvb-a-fec=2\/3 :dvb-transmission=8 :dvb-b-modulation=QPSK :dvb-guard=1\/4 :dvb-hierarchy :program=ENTER_PROGRAM_NUMBER_HERE e.g. for UBC enter 1  (see channels.conf file)<\/code><\/p>\n<p><em>Initial observations<\/em>: Audio quality is a bit off for some channels like NTV &#8211; I guess this will improve over time as the broadcasters get their act together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, Digital TV broadcasting has started in Uganda. Below is a list of channels I was able to scan for the Kampala area. See my previous post on how to scan for these channels. service = UBC TV (UCC) service = UBC STAR TV (UCC) service = East AFRICA TV (UCC) service = ITV (UCC) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}