[mythtv] OpenCable stream type & #2556

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:00:04AM -0400, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:49 +0100, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> > 
> > I think we should implement this by setting the sistandard to
> > opencable. 
> 
> This is the better solution, just make sure you rename any existing
> "atsc" sistandard transports to "opencable" iff any of the associated
> channels have (atsc_minor_chan <= 0).
> 
> The ATSC scanner should use "atsc" if there is a VCT, "opencable"
> if there is no VCT but a video stream has a stream id of 0x80 and
> "mpeg" otherwise.

so opencable is essentially an mpeg transport with PMT's
listing opencable video pids??

> 
> I'll be glad to test the patch for the "atsc" vs. "mpeg" check,
> and funaho (see #2579) should be able to test the "opencable"
> check.
> 
> FYI I will only have cable for another week or so, so I won't
> be able to test the scanner for a while after that.
> 

Don't worry, won't be that quick. I still have to fix the dvb-s
scanning where they send only SDTo's.


Stuart