[mythtv] DVB datapoint - EIT and channel scanning

Steve Davies steve at one47.co.uk
Thu Jan 27 14:58:38 EST 2005


Taylor Jacob wrote:
> Quoting Steve Davies <steve at one47.co.uk>:
 >
>>2) channels.chanid - I was under the impression that chanid was meant to
>>be in the range (sourceid*1000) to (sourceid*1000)+999. I do not know
>>whether this is a tradition or a requirement, but I have 2 sources, 1
>>DVB and 1 non-DVB. The DVB scan created all new chanid numbers to
>>continue from the highest existing number, rather than checking for the
>>highest number in the appropriate range. This meant that the end result
>>was much more confused and the chanid and sourceid no-longer matched.
> 
> 
> Can you give me some specifics?  It should have used sourceID * 1000 as the base
> for the chanid..
> 
> 
I just worked out my problem :) I had a source 2 record in the table 
with a chanid of 3014 - I put it there to save some data from 
deletion... This will have thrown off the next-number calculation. I 
should have changed sourceid to "3" in this saved record to prevent this.

Sorry :-)
Steve

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