[mythtv] EIT on a custom service

Janne Grunau janne-mythtv at grunau.be
Sat Jun 28 15:41:52 UTC 2008


On Saturday 28 June 2008 16:34:28 Neil Garratt wrote:
>
> Adding a hard-coded PID and filtering on the Network ID works fine.
> They do provide SI tables for this service, however, and it makes
> more sense to use this rather than a hard-coded PID. What's the best
> way of getting the current PID? Parse the cached PAT/PMT tables?

Full DVB standard EIT should be on PID 0x12. If they use a different PID 
for EIT we need to hardcode it since there is to my knownledge no way 
to announce EIT PIDs.

> I see SDT isn't used much outside the scanner, but this would be
> preferred (in case someone removes this service from their channel
> list).

The SDT (network id, transport id, service id) is used for full DVB 
tuning.

Janne


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