02.12.2004
UK, London, BBC TV Centre - Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (full show)
PAL
PRO-SHOT
menu, track select, play all

01. Opening Credits 
02. Jonathan Ross 
03. Interview with Matt Lucas and David Walliams 
04. U2 - "Vertigo" 
05. Jonathan Ross 
06. Interview with Jessica Stevenson 
07. Interview with U2 
08. U2 - "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" 
09. U2 - "I Will Follow" 

Total Running Time: [59:21]

3 December 2004 (First broadcast date, recorded 2 December) 
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (Season 7, Show 13) 

DVD Format: 16:9 PAL with MPEG audio (includes full menus) 
Filesize: 1756MB 

DETAILED SOURCE INFORMATION: 
Video: 3.6Mbit/s 720x576 16:9 PAL MPEG-2 (original broadcast bitstream) 
Audio: 256kbps/48KHz MPEG-1, Layer II (original broadcast bitstream) 
Source: First-air TV broadcast on BBC One London, 3 Dec 2004, 10.35pm-11.30pm 
Lineage: DVB digital satellite TV -> PC DVB card -> HD (MPEG2-TS) 

Notes: 
This recording consists of the original MPEG data as broadcast by the BBC. Neither the video or the audio have been recompressed - it was simply "saved" to hard disk using a PC DVB card and then remultiplexed to the DVD standard. The recording is confirmed to be 100% error-free - i.e. no dropped frames. 

Software/Hardware used: 
Hauppauge "Nova-S" PCI DVB Card 
Linux DVB drivers/dvbstream to capture original DVB Transport Stream 
dvbtscut to cut relevant portion of transport stream out of long recording 
PVAStrumento 2.1rc7 to demux transport stream to elementary video/audio streams 
"mplex -f 8" (from mjpegtools) to remultiplex elementary streams dvdauthor to author the DVD 

Video Attribute :
  Video compression mode : MPEG-2 (DxVA on)
  TV system : 625/50 (PAL)
  Aspect Ratio : 16:9
  Display Mode : Both Pan&scan and Letterbox
  Source picture resolution : 720x576 (625/50)
  Frame Rate : 25.00
  Source picture letterboxed : Not letterboxed

Audio Attribute : 
  Audio Coding mode : MPEG
  Sampling Rate : 48kHz
  Audio application mode : Not specified
  Number of Audio channels : 2.0
  Bitrate : 256 Kbps
  Number of Audio streams : 1