[mythtv] DVD Channel Auto-Add

[William Uther]

> Hey All,
>
> I have tried this question twice on mythtv-users, and was met with  
> stunning
> silence...
>
> So here we go with hopefully more knowledgable people:
>
> I have configured my MythTV box with a DVICO Fuson HDTV DVB card  
> that is
> working a treat with an VIA MII 10000 board. But for some reason  
> after about
> a week of running, all the other channels in a multiplex start  
> appearing in
> my epg. In australia most of the commericical stations have 3-4  
> channels but
> they are are duplicates. So to reduce clutter, I never added them. But
> something is adding them, and I want to find out what it is and  
> kill it.
>
> Does mythtv detect extra channels on the digital mutiplexed  
> broadcast and add
> them automatically ?
> I'm sick of deleting them from my channels config. I'm sure this  
> feature would
> be great for most people, but it is highly annoying at the moment.  
> Anybody
> have any ideas as to what is causing this ?

I started seeing this recently and, on the advice of a post I now  
can't find, made this change:

diff -u -r1.189 tv_rec.cpp
--- libs/libmythtv/tv_rec.cpp   4 Jun 2005 02:46:30 -0000       1.189
+++ libs/libmythtv/tv_rec.cpp   7 Jun 2005 06:24:55 -0000
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@
          channel = new DVBChannel(videodev.toInt(), this);
          channel->Open();
-        scanner = new SIScan((DVBChannel *)channel, 1);
-        pthread_create(&scanner_thread, NULL, SpawnScanner, scanner);
+//        scanner = new SIScan((DVBChannel *)channel, 1);
+//        pthread_create(&scanner_thread, NULL, SpawnScanner, scanner);
          if (inputname.isEmpty())
              channel->SetChannelByString(startchannel);

That has fixed the problem for me.  It probably also gives my  
grandmother back pain and other strange side effects, so use at own  
risk.

Be well,

Will           :-}