[mythtv] DVB: no longer paying attention to "Open DVB card on demand"?

Dave Just justifiably at cwazy.co.uk
Tue Oct 4 18:05:52 UTC 2005


Thanks for the reply Daniel.

> This should only be the case if you have experimental EIT scanning
> enabled. DVB on-demand is still working but the the EIT Scan is
> continuous.... My hope is that someone will step in and improve on
> this situation. Perhaps doing a scan every few hours, or just before
> a recording (which would also catch changed start times...).

Aha, I see.  I'm sure I did enable this but now I look for where to  
turn it off again I can't find it.
No matter.

> Don't do that! You can screw up MythTV by running mythtv-setup
> while the backend is running. The harder it is to make that
> mistake the better.

Eek!

> Ideally, we would detect any running instances of the backend
> and refuse to run the mythtv-setup. But someone has to write
> this code...

At least a warning at the beginning during the "do you want to delete  
all your cards/channels"
messages should be trivial?

  - D.



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