[mythtv] Re: Ticket #13: Tune to an on air channel when the current channel is unavailable.

[Stuart Morgan]

On Wed 17 August 2005 20:22, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> >  I don't like your solution to problem 1. Each tuner would have to share
> >  a good channel for that to work. It would make more sense for
> >  InitChannel()
> >  to try all the channels on all the inputs of the Tuner until it finds
> > one that works, or at least try one channel on each input, so that
> > completely bogus first channel info gets reset.
>
> It is at least proof of concept that we can detect when the channel
> we started up with is off air. The actually channel to tune to is a
> topic we need to work through to work out an effective solution for
> all.

The solution used by Cable/Satellite (and probably Freeview) boxes seems 
logical - that is instead of tuning to a channel a place holder is shown 
announcing that the channel is currently off-air. The user would still be in 
Live-TV mode, with OSD etc and free to change channel. It would be less 
confusing than jumping to a random/different on-air channel.

-- 
Stuart Morgan