[mythtv-users] [mythtv-commits] mythtv/master commit: eed7862e8 by Raymond Wagner (wagnerrp)

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Sat Mar 17 18:44:56 UTC 2012


On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Then it sounds like your Ceton card is being treated as an unscannable
>>> digital tuner (i.e. perhaps because it's not a supported device in
>>> 0.24-fixes?).
>>>
>>> If so, you'll need to either add those channels and mark them as not
>>> visible in the video source where they shouldn't be used or use
>>> --remove-new-channels.
>>
>> I'll leave --remove-new-channels for now, the plan is to upgrade it to
>> 0.25 soon anyway and we'll see if it's still an issue then.
>
> As far as the Ceton code goes, 0.24 and 0.25 should be pretty much the
> same. I don't know if the rest of the myth code would behave
> differently, but as far as what Mike guessed, yes my code reports the
> Ceton as unscannable, in both 0.24 and 0.25. Although my code does
> work with QAM in both 0.24 and 0.25, it is primarily cablecard based.
> The ability to tune QAM channels was trivial to code, so it's included
> in my code. But it assumes that you properly setup your channels with
> the frequency/program number for it to do this. I never actually added
> a QAM channel scanner for the ceton. So the result is that QAM kinda
> works, but it's only a partial implementation.
>
> I'm not familiar with how mythfilldatabase works with regard to
> scannable vs unscannable tuners. From Mike's comment, I'm guessing it
> infers from this whether or not it's safe to add new channels from the
> SD data. If using the --remove-new-channels doesn't work for you, or
> causes issues with your HDPVR guide source (I'm guessing you DO want
> those channels added automatically, which won't happen with
> --remove-new-channels), then the other possibility is for you to give
> a shot at changing the code. In cardutil.h there is a function called
> IsUnscanable. Perhaps removing the CETON part from this function will
> solve the problem. Of course, I haven't tested that and can't say what
> else it may affect.

It sounds like (Michael, correct me if I'm wrong), the reason on my
setup it never was an issue is I have some "invisibile" channels.


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