[mythtv] Patch to scan for DVB channels within setup

[Paul Volkaerts]

Fantastic; I was just knocking together something quick and dirty to prevent
me having to enter all those numbers in SQL again.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of John Pullan
> Sent: 29 October 2004 09:13
> To: Development of mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Patch to scan for DVB channels within setup
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 23:19 +0100, Paul Volkaerts wrote:
> > Inspired by a hard disk crash (and a realisation that my backup
> strategy is
> > pants) that caused me to have to re-enter all my DVB channel
> info, I have
> > written a patch to channeleditor.cpp that puts a button on the
> setup screen
> > which causes a call to "scan", parses the output and fills the channel /
> > dvb_channel and dvb_pids tables in the database.  It also
> checks for changes
> > in pids for existing channels and updates these too.
> >
> > It is far from perfect --- you still have to go in and add
> callsign, picture
> > format, xmltvid etc (anything "scan" does not detect for you); it doesnt
> > handle multiple capture cards, and it probably only handles
> DVB-T.   But its
> > a step in the right direction and without doing anything manual
> you at least
> > get pictures.
> >
> > I have CVS access but since this is not my code, does someone
> own this code
> > and want me to forward a patch or should I commit it myself?
> >
> Great, you wait for ages and then two come along at once :)
>
> As part of the "Taylor Jacob" dvb patch, a scanner is being written to
> do this. (patch, planned for this weekend) Which should work for dvb-
> [t,s,c] formats and fill in the DB etc.
>
> see http://www.digitalregime.com/mythdvb.
>
> It's nearly done (honest)
>
> --
> John
>
>