[mythtv-users] BBC THREE/FOUR

Malcolm Smith malc at porsche.demon.co.uk
Wed Feb 4 06:19:00 EST 2004


Yep that's exactly how I do it at present.

I also have a modified version of nuv_export to extract the mp3 data and 
throw away the redundant video

Would be nice to have a "proper" solution

-malc-

Paul Woodward wrote:

>At one stage I had the radio working by setting the video pid to that of another channel on the same multiplex - it kept myth happy!
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>Paul
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>>Malcolm Smith wrote:
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>>>Simon,
>>>
>>>Although I agree with point about the loops and the general behaviour of
>>>the DVB code (and feel free to fix!), I think your problem is slightly
>>>different.
>>>
>>[snip]
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>>>If you look carefully the video and audio pids are 0 when it is off the
>>>air. When did you run scan?
>>>
>>Yes that's a good one, I fell for that one the first time I installed,
>>was only when I reran scan in the evening it finaly dawned on me how the
>>two channels where being broadcast (or not as the case maybe).
>>
>>>I would check your pids. I've been working with Daniel on a script that
>>>takes the output of scan and loads up the various tables. I could let
>>>you have a copy. (It's not complete yet).
>>>
>>That would be the most obvious solution.. Might I suggest for a future
>>direction that the mythtv setup program be enhanced to allow a external
>>tuner application to be run to do this.  That way it should be possible
>>to automate the process for other DVB types and even analog if somebody
>>knocks together the scan/detection app.
>>
>>>Back to the original problem:
>>>
>>>Ideally the backend should respond indicating no program data is available.
>>>It should also cope with different apids and the vpid/apid not being
>>>present (e.g. no vpid = radio station)
>>>
>>Yes I'd noticed that mythtv wasn't hot with the radio channels.. I'm not
>>promising anything as my forte is real-time C code/distributed systems.
>>So I suspect my milage may vary when I try to hack Video based/C++. So
>>we will see..(Said the blind man)..
>>
>>Simon
>>
>>--
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>>		-- Albert Einstein
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