[mythtv] [Experimental PATCH] BIG DVB PATCH V3.2 Released

[John Pullan]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 10:31 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
> In message <1103537934.3151.11.camel at dotnet.tarantella.com>
>         John Pullan <jmp at tarantella.com> wrote:
> 
> > A full frequency scan would be harsh, as we have (top of my head) 50
> > channels in the UK, with a potential of 3 sub channels at say 5 seconds
> > per channel. Gives 50*3*5 = 750 seconds. 
> 
> It's 21-69 isn't it, which is 49 channels, but close enough. 
 
Only out by 15 seconds :)

> 
> The old ONDigital boxes did use to warn that it might take 20 minutes
> to do the scan although it never did.
> 
> > I wish I knew how STB's really did this kind of stuff. I suspect that
> > because it's propriety hardware they can do more stuff. or maybe we just
> > need a better mechanism for detecting lack of lock in the scan case.
> 
> Well given that the UK muxes transmit a network table you only have
> to find one frequency by scanning and you can then locate the others
> using the network table so maybe they do that?
> 

Which is what we do. But the pathological case is still not good. I'll
have to have a play about with it sometime.

--
John