[mythtv-users] Ignoring certain channels from certain inputs

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On Sunday, 21 October 2012, Mark Greenwood wrote:

>
> In the UK, DVB signals include channel numbers, so by 'sensible' I mean
> 'following the channel order as defined in the signal'. Mythtv appears to
> ignore this. A rescan on my myth box takes 15 minutes, then I have at least
> 2 copies of each channel so I have to work out which one is the best for
> each channel then set a channel number and delete the others. But then
> because I've set my own channel numbers but myth invents new ones when I
> rescan (e.g. 4283 for BBC1..huh?) I get loads of duplicates as well. It's a
> nightmare. It also doesn't take account of the signal strengths of the
> channels it finds, whereas my TV will choose the best signal for each
> channel and discard any duplicates, hence I only get one BBC1 and it's on
> Channel 1, instead of 3 of them randomly distributed across the channels
> like I get with mythtv. (The first scan, I had BBC1 on channels 1, 46, and
> 4283. Where did it get those numbers from? The only one that gives a decent
> picture is the one on 4283 so it sho
>  uld have chosen that one and thrown the other 2 away).


Myth uses the channel as defined by the DVB stream. It may not be what
you're used to, but that's what the broadcast uses.

>
> In Oz, after a scan, channel 9 is on 9, Seven on 7, Ten on 10 etc..

The order used by myth is exactly the same as the tuner in my TV would use
too
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