[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1203: Fix channels.conf import for ATSC OTA/QAM

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/3/06, MythTV <mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org> wrote:
> #1203: Fix channels.conf import for ATSC OTA/QAM
> ---------------------------------------------------------+------------------
>  Reporter:  bolek-mythtv at curl.com (Boleslaw Ciesielski)  |        Owner:  danielk
>      Type:  patch                                        |       Status:  new
>  Priority:  minor                                        |    Milestone:  0.20
> Component:  mythtv                                       |      Version:  head
>  Severity:  medium                                       |   Resolution:
> ---------------------------------------------------------+------------------
> Changes (by danielk):
>
>   * milestone:  => 0.20
>
> Comment:
>
>  * Fix DVBConfParser::parseConfATSC to understand the standard azap
>  channels.conf format as produced by atscscan.
>  This is good, the parser was written before atscscan was finished, it
>  needs to match the actual output from that program...
>   * Do not put the serviceid in the channum column
>  Ok, but you must put something unique in the channum column.
>   * match channels by callsign
>  This will cause too many problems. Can you write something that tries to
>  fill in the blank XMLTV id's from the callsigns instead?
>
>  If you can fix the channum column issue (assign consecutive numbers
>  starting at 1 if you must, but don't use any numbers already assigned to a
>  channel from a previous scan), then I'll apply the first two parts of this
>  tonight as bug fixes.

as long as it is eventually changed to the proper channel number via zap2it.

--
Steve