[mythtv-users] DVB EIT Not Updating

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 01:51:49 UTC 2006


On 16/01/06, Robin Elvin <rob at fearsedge.com> wrote:
> I had a bit of a problem last night with my Myth box where I had no EPG
> data. After a bit of head scratching and playing with settings I finally
> worked out what it was.
>
> It turns out that last week when I had a problem with DVB-T audio
> recording the Audio Description track rather than the normal sound I also
> set the "Open DVB Card On Demand" setting. It seems that if you don't
> watch Live TV or record much then the card doesn't get opened (as I
> wanted) but this also means that no EPG data gets captured.
>
> I did search around for a bit but I haven't found any mention of this. I'm
> sorry if I missed an obvious post but I thought I'd share my experience in
> case anyone else has the same problem.

For this precise reason I use a program called tv_grab_dvb to get the
DVB EPG data when the card is not being used in MythTV. DVB radio
channels are not supported well in 0.18.1 so I use tv_grab_dvb to get
the listings for them so I can at least schedule DVB radio in TS
format.

Nick


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