[mythtv-users] Missing EPG on a number of channels

Robert 2201mythtvml at rainbow.in-berlin.de
Sun Jan 2 12:49:46 UTC 2022


Dear MythTV users,

I'm missing EPG for a number of channels.
The problem started mid December when several channels announced that they were changing their place and that viewers should rescan.
I rescanned several times, but this did not fix the issue.
Strangely, MythWeb showed a channel that I had deleted in mythtv-setup.
So I gave up, deleted all channels, video sources and capture cards and created them anew.

First, only 39 channels appeared in the scan. Only after turning off "Logical Channel Numbers required" I got 86 more of the usual channels.
But then again, a number of channel don't get EPG. I checked the channel settings, and strangly these were added with "Use 'Over-the-Air' programme listings" off. I turned the setting on for the channels but this did not help.
What the channels lacking EPG have in common is the same two mplexid values.
I turned debugging on for eit, but all I can see is that it seems to scan the two mplexids.
So, I wonder whether it's the data that is missing or the software that has problems with the data on the two mplexes.
How to find out?

I have a quadHD card connected to some kind of DVB-C that comes via FTTH (fiber), in Germany.
I'm running MythTV 1:31.0+fixes20211113.git25f1bb1d12-dmo0+deb11u1 on Debian 11 (upgraded from 10 a few days ago but that did not fix the EPG problem).
(/etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-multimedia/ bullseye main)

Thanks,
Robert

Jan 02 12:22:25 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:25.320880 E  MPEGStream[3](0x7f8e50079368): Error: AFCOffset(4)+StartOfFieldPointer(182)>184, pes length & current cannot be queried
Jan 02 12:22:25 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:25.471459 E  MPEGStream[3](0x7f8e50079368): Error: AFCOffset(4)+StartOfFieldPointer(181)>184, pes length & current cannot be queried
Jan 02 12:22:25 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:25.922921 E  MPEGStream[3](0x7f8e50079368): Error: AFCOffset(4)+StartOfFieldPointer(181)>184, pes length & current cannot be queried
Jan 02 12:22:26 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:26.173914 E  MPEGStream[3](0x7f8e50079368): Error: AFCOffset(4)+StartOfFieldPointer(181)>184, pes length & current cannot be queried
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.409973 I  EITScanner[2]: Added 91 EIT Events
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.410492 I  Reschedule requested for MATCH 0 1 12 2022-01-05T23:00:00Z EITScanner
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.411678 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 953 for channel 10001 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.416399 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 863 for channel 10009 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.419562 I  EITCache: Writing 1 modified entries of 1034 for channel 10033 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.421863 I  EITCache: Writing 1 modified entries of 1073 for channel 10035 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.432885 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 843 for channel 10201 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.433674 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 1006 for channel 10234 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.434395 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 910 for channel 10237 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.436618 I  EITCache: Writing 1 modified entries of 1096 for channel 10302 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.439046 I  EITCache: Writing 1 modified entries of 1034 for channel 10305 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.442639 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 899 for channel 10407 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.443338 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 888 for channel 10408 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.444217 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 960 for channel 10409 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.445798 I  EITCache: Writing 1 modified entries of 1096 for channel 10411 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.447735 I  EITCache: Writing 1 modified entries of 1096 for channel 10412 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.448601 I  EITCache: Writing 1 modified entries of 1096 for channel 10413 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.451877 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 863 for channel 10417 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.452625 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 937 for channel 10418 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.453376 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 931 for channel 10419 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.455225 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 979 for channel 10421 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.456031 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 979 for channel 10422 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.456762 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 979 for channel 10423 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.457488 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 979 for channel 10424 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.458292 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 928 for channel 10425 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.459094 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 928 for channel 10426 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.459939 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 928 for channel 10427 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.460738 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 961 for channel 10428 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.461330 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 615 for channel 10429 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.461910 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 633 for channel 10430 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.462789 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 1190 for channel 10431 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.463421 I  EITCache: Writing 2 modified entries of 400 for channel 10432 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.478009 I  EITCache: Writing 1 modified entries of 1034 for channel 10452 to database.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.485441 I  EITScanner[2]: Now looking for EIT data on multiplex of channel 5
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.485470 I  EITCache: Pruning all entries that ended before UTC 2022-01-01T11:27:29Z
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.553194 I  EITCache: Deleting old cache entries from the database
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.645143 I  Scheduled 198 items in 0.1 = 0.01 match + 0.00 check + 0.05 place
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.650510 I  EITScanner[2]: Stopped passive scan.
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.736828 I  TVRec[2]: TuningFrequency
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.774904 I  CardUtil[2]: Set delivery system: DVB-C/A
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.777599 D  DTVChan[2](/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0): SetChannelByString(5): Initialize multiplex options m_tunerType:1 mplexid:13
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830877 D  SignalMonitorValue(Signal Lock, slock, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830884 D  SignalMonitorValue(Signal Power, signal, 0, 0, 0, 100, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830889 D  SignalMonitorValue(Script Status, script, 0, 3, 0, 3, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830895 D  SignalMonitorValue(Seen PAT, seen_pat, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830899 D  SignalMonitorValue(Seen PMT, seen_pmt, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830902 D  SignalMonitorValue(Seen MGT, seen_mgt, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830906 D  SignalMonitorValue(Seen VCT, seen_vct, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830909 D  SignalMonitorValue(Seen NIT, seen_nit, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830911 D  SignalMonitorValue(Seen SDT, seen_sdt, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830915 D  SignalMonitorValue(Seen Crypt, seen_crypt, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830919 D  SignalMonitorValue(Matching PAT, matching_pat, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830923 D  SignalMonitorValue(Matching PMT, matching_pmt, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830926 D  SignalMonitorValue(Matching MGT, matching_mgt, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830929 D  SignalMonitorValue(Matching VCT, matching_vct, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830933 D  SignalMonitorValue(Matching NIT, matching_nit, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830935 D  SignalMonitorValue(Matching SDT, matching_sdt, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830939 D  SignalMonitorValue(Matching Crypt, matching_crypt, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830944 D  SignalMonitorValue(Signal To Noise, snr, 0, 0, 0, 65535, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830948 D  SignalMonitorValue(Bit Error Rate, ber, 0, 65535, 0, 65535, 0, 0, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830952 D  SignalMonitorValue(Uncorrected Blocks, ucb, 0, 65535, 0, 65535, 0, 0, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.830955 D  SignalMonitorValue(Rotor Progress, pos, 0, 100, 0, 100, 0, 1, false)
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.831236 D  Setting 'Lossless transcoding' changed to 0
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.831243 D  Setting 'Resize video while transcoding' changed to 0
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.831247 D  Setting 'Enable auto-transcode after recording' changed to 0
Jan 02 12:22:27 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:27.831958 D  Setting 'Enable auto-transcode after recording' changed to 0
Jan 02 12:22:28 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:28.290493 I  EITScanner[2]: Started passive scan.
Jan 02 12:22:28 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:28.682839 E  MPEGStream[3](0x7f8e50079368): Error: AFCOffset(4)+StartOfFieldPointer(182)>184, pes length & current cannot be queried
Jan 02 12:22:28 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:28.733074 E  MPEGStream[3](0x7f8e50079368): Error: AFCOffset(4)+StartOfFieldPointer(181)>184, pes length & current cannot be queried
Jan 02 12:22:28 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:28.883669 E  MPEGStream[3](0x7f8e50079368): Error: AFCOffset(4)+StartOfFieldPointer(182)>184, pes length & current cannot be queried
Jan 02 12:22:29 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:29.034206 E  MPEGStream[3](0x7f8e50079368): Error: AFCOffset(4)+StartOfFieldPointer(181)>184, pes length & current cannot be queried
Jan 02 12:22:29 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:29.939884 D  Running HouseKeeper.
Jan 02 12:22:29 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:29.939892 D  Checking to run DBCleanup
Jan 02 12:22:29 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:29.939897 D  Checking to run HardwareProfiler
Jan 02 12:22:29 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:29.939909 D  Checking to run JobQueueRecover
Jan 02 12:22:29 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:29.939911 D  Checking to run LogClean
Jan 02 12:22:29 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:29.939913 D  Checking to run MythFillDB
Jan 02 12:22:29 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:29.939919 D  MythFillDatabase is disabled. Cannot run.
Jan 02 12:22:29 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:29.939922 D  Checking to run RecordedArtworkUpdate
Jan 02 12:22:29 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:29.939926 D  Checking to run ThemeUpdateNotifications
Jan 02 12:22:30 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:30.188307 E  MPEGStream[3](0x7f8e50079368): Error: AFCOffset(4)+StartOfFieldPointer(181)>184, pes length & current cannot be queried
Jan 02 12:22:30 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:30.389145 E  MPEGStream[3](0x7f8e50079368): Error: AFCOffset(4)+StartOfFieldPointer(181)>184, pes length & current cannot be queried
Jan 02 12:22:31 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:31.192008 E  MPEGStream[3](0x7f8e50079368): Error: AFCOffset(4)+StartOfFieldPointer(182)>184, pes length & current cannot be queried
Jan 02 12:22:31 hostname mythbackend[1310]: 2022-01-02 12:22:31.342548 E  MPEGStream[3](0x7f8e50079368): Error: AFCOffset(4)+StartOfFieldPointer(181)>184, pes length & current cannot be queried


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