[mythtv-users] Ticket #9592

[Mike Perkins]

On 13/07/12 19:36, Yianni Vidalis wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm posting this here because I don't want to risk getting other users'
> tickets locked.
>
> The only dvb-t transport in my area changed frequency recently, and since
> then I lost EIT. Then I came across ticket #9592 and I'd like to thank
> McBlau at ... for his patch.
>
> I converted it for my net ID and I've got EIT back.
>
> There is a slightly slight propability that the technicians of our national
> tv will correctl the stream to show that EIT is present but in the remotely
> remote chance they don't is there another way for mythtv to correctly
> determine if EIT is present for a provider?
>
> I used dvbsnoop to confirm that the EIT data was present prior to patching
> mythtv. Can't mythtv similarly probe the stream for EIT data instead of
> relying on a flag?
>
Seems a plausible idea. During DVB scanning the scanner already has to determine 
what channels are in which multiplexes, whether they are video, radio or 
something else and if they are encrypted/encoded, etc. The information whether 
EIT is present must be there somewhere. Just needs a flag storing...

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Mike Perkins