[mythtv-users] Program not found in PAT - weak signal?

[Mike Perkins]

Mike Dent wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a few weak digital channels, mainly BBC channels from the
> Winter Hill transmitter
> in the UK. When one of my tuner cards lands on one of these channels I
> notice my myth
> logs filling up with :-
> 
> 2007-10-06 14:08:55.031 Program #8301 not found in PAT!
> Program Association Table
>  PSIP tableID(0x0) length(69) extension(0x200b)
>       version(10) current(1) section(0) last_section(0)
>          tsid: 8203
>  programCount: 15
>   program number 0 has PID 0x  10   data  0x0 0x0 0x224 0x16
>   program number 8267 has PID 0x 111   data  0x32 0x75 0x225 0x17
>   program number 8325 has PID 0x 106   data  0x32 0x133 0x225 0x6
>   program number 8358 has PID 0x 114   data  0x32 0x166 0x225 0x20
>   program number 8570 has PID 0x 112   data  0x33 0x122 0x225 0x18
>   program number 8637 has PID 0x 115   data  0x33 0x189 0x225 0x21
>   program number 8384 has PID 0x 103   data  0x32 0x192 0x225 0x3
>   program number 8768 has PID 0x 104   data  0x34 0x64 0x225 0x4
>   program number 8452 has PID 0x 10b   data  0x33 0x4 0x225 0x11
>   program number 8448 has PID 0x 109   data  0x33 0x0 0x225 0x9
>   program number 8442 has PID 0x 10e   data  0x32 0x250 0x225 0x14
>   program number 8353 has PID 0x 116   data  0x32 0x161 0x225 0x22
>   program number 8771 has PID 0x 11a   data  0x34 0x67 0x225 0x26
>   program number 8772 has PID 0x 11c   data  0x34 0x68 0x225 0x28
>   program number 8294 has PID 0x 117   data  0x32 0x102 0x225 0x23
> 
> 
> I'm guessing this is to do with errors in extracting the EIT information??
> As I cannot fix the weaker signals so far, is there any way to stop
> these entries
> being logged or at least the scanning on weaker channels?
> 
It's most likely to do with the recent shuffle about of several ITV channels 
(IIRC). You will have to to the MTD[1] thing I'm afraid - delete all your tuners 
and rescan, with the attendant bodging of xmltvids to channels etc.

If you do like I did at the time and take the opportunity to upgrade to a more 
recent svn, you may find the scanning a fair bit more sensitive, which may help 
with your weak signals. Good luck!

Mike Perkins

Oh, and there's allegedly more shuffling to come in November.

[1] Mike T Dean - "select the option to delete all capture cards, not the option 
to delete all capture cards on <hostname>".