[mythtv] Possible bug from "setup" using tv_grab_uk

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 05:19:21PM +0000, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:

> I've got tv_grab_uk to have a --list-providers (the postcode isn't used
> but handled to maintain compatibility with grab_na). For providers my
> initial idea was:
>  Analogue Terrestrial (one for each region, Central, Yorkshire, etc)
>  Digital Terrestrial (FREEVIEW)
>  Analogue Cable (NTL)
>  Digital Cable (NTL)
>  (etc)

Does it make sense to have a post code?  That, is, would it be possible to
intelligently guess which providers are available given a geographic
location, if you had that information?  If not, don't bother with it;
there's no need to support all of tv_grab_na's options unless they make
sense.

> So far in GUI terms with the user would enter their postcode, and select
> tv_grab_uk, and then choose a provider.

Or rather, first select tv_grab_uk, then enter their postcode and choose a
provider.

> At this point there needs to be some intelligence in XMLTV to gather the
> correct channels for NTL Digital Cable- as I see it this would be all NTL
> channels  available. 

Yes...what about the other providers?  Are you planning to include the
channel list in the grabber?

> There then needs to be a facility in MythTV to be able to drop channels
> which are not required (QVC/TV Shopping/News..), and channels which
> might not be in their package.

Yes, this will probably be a generic channel selector for all grabbers
(maybe saving the settings differently, depending on how that falls out).

> I see it to be a time consuming to integrate a providers individual
> packages as different providers e.g "Telewest Base Package", "NTL Base
> Package", "NTL Family Pack".

I don't think this level of granularity is necessary, myself; these things
tend to change with time anyway.  Users can easily enough select the
channels that they actually receive.

> There doesn't seem to be a facility to do this in the CVS version I
> dragged out this morning. Maybe a GUI based channel editor to just
> display the channels available, and allow channels not required to be
> deleted. ???

Right now, the approach is to add all channels, and the user can change them
by hand or using tv_grab_XX --configure.  This seems sufficient until a
graphical channel editor is added.

> > (This is sure to get fun in terms of conflict resolution once people
> > have tuner 1 connected to a Freeview box, and tuner 2 connected to Sky
> > Digital - especially as some channels are available on both services :)
> 
> Not sure if that is an issue or not for conflict resolution.... If there
> doesn't exist a method already someway of  binding a paritcular
> videosource to capturecard. And then some intelligence in the conflict
> resolution to shift programs around. Since my TV card has disappeared in
> another box for now, I'm not quite sure how this all fits together.

Currently, I believe channels are strictly per-videosource, i.e., any two
channels on two different sources are always considered to be different.
This could presumably be enhanced in the future to recognize if two channels
are actually identical, if someone wants to do it.

-- 
 - mdz