[mythtv] Re : Eit fixup coding howto?

[manu]

On 09/28/2007 09:05:08 PM, Janne Grunau wrote:
> On Saturday 29 September 2007 01:27:02 Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 19:15 -0400, manu wrote:
> > > 	Hi all,
> > > I use a dvb-s card with mythtv, the provider is canalsatellite
> > > caraibes (the
> > > alter-ego though lesser quality of the French provider).
> > > The eit does not work at all (everything is unknown). I know there
> > > is now/next
> > > info embedded with every prog as I can get it while watching a
> > > channel.
> >
> > MythTV does not use now/next.
> 
> It does. Now/next are normal event information tables (EIT) with
> special
> table IDs (0x4f and 0x4e). The eitscanner might have trouble to get
> the
> information in time. If there is only now/next you should decrease the
> 
> transport timeout to 1 minute.

OK will do that.

> > > Moreover there is an epg channel that you can consult separetely
> > > with a few
> > > days AFAICT, though it could be only one day worth I am not sure.
> >
> > You should make sure this is the only channel that has the
> > useonairguide flag set. You can set this in mythtv-setup in the
> > Channel editor.
> 
> I would guess that that transport carries the long time information
> for
> all or a couple of channels. In that case all the channels should have
> 
> the useonairguide flag set.

Hmm I remember setting useonairguide for several channels but IIRC I  
did not set it for the "epg" channel, will look at it.

> > > So... the question: I have seen that there are "fixups"for the eit
> > > scanner,where can I find some docs (if there is something else
> than
> > > the source) and what kind of info I need (eg the TS of the epg
> > > channel, the standards...)
> >
> > "fixups" are only used to extract additional information from the
> > description and other fields of the EIT data. Since you aren't
> > getting any data fixups are irrelevant.
> >
> > Most likely you either imported a channels.conf instead of scanning
> > for channels within MythTV and so don't have the proper information
> > in your channel and dtv_multiplex tables,
> 
> trunk and 0.20.2 will insert the appropiate information even with
> channels.con import.

OK

> > or the EIT scanning is
> > disabled; at either the video source or channel level.
> 
> Please also check that the sistandard field in dtv_multiplex is set to
> 
> dvb and networkid and transportid are not NULL.
> 

I will have a look at those to see if at least myth has the necessary  
info
I will keep you posted... Well when my T-1500S decides to work again :(
Thx
Bye
Manu

	

	
		
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