[mythtv] grr, DVB (uk) channels started moving around...

Taylor Jacob rtjacob at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 10 20:26:20 UTC 2004


> If you look at the current "dvbscan" app, you can see that the actual
> backend bit that does the work is already broken out and easily
> abstracted.  So it would just take those files compiling against libmyth
> to get a DB connection and we can quickly write a new "export" module to
> insert the channels found by scanning.  Easy then to keep the code in
> sync with the official tree.  Just needs a frontend to kick it off from
> the setup app though, probably needs a popup box first to choose card,
> then a little list box to pick your dvb scan starting point file and the
> rest is just magic...

I already wrote my own stuff, mostly because I didn't the rest of what was out
there and I also have abstracted it a bit so it could be used for ATSC
(American HDTV Standard).. Be patient and I will have a patch in a few days..
This is where I stand today with testing.. Here is a little log from my
backend..

2004-10-10 16:05:44 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2004-10-10 16:05:44 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully.
Audiostream: Layer: 2  BRate: 192 kb/s  Freq: 48.0 kHz
Videostream: ASPECT: 4:3  Size = 544x480  FRate: 29.97 fps  BRate: 15.00 Mbit/s
2004-10-10 16:05:54 DVB#0 Got PIDs from Database
2004-10-10 16:05:54 DVB#0 DiSEqC 1.0 Switch - Port 3
2004-10-10 16:05:54 DVB#0 DiSEqC Sending 1.0 Command: e0 10 38 fd
2004-10-10 16:05:55 DVB#0 WARNING - Status: NO LOCK!
2004-10-10 16:05:55 DVB#0 WARNING - Status: CARRIER | SIGNAL | NO LOCK!
2004-10-10 16:05:55 DVB#0 Signal Locked. Waiting on PIDS
2004-10-10 16:05:55 SIParser: Tuned to TransportID: 11
2004-10-10 16:05:55 SIParser: NIT Present on this transport on PID 16
2004-10-10 16:05:55 SIParser: Services on this Transport: 101 172 210 212 222
225 228 260 261 262 480 490 827 9412 9602
2004-10-10 16:05:55 DVB#0 Using VideoPID = 6946 AudioPID = 6947
2004-10-10 16:05:55 DVB#0 Service is FTA
2004-10-10 16:05:55 DVB#0 AutoPID Complete - PAT/PMT Loaded for service
2004-10-10 16:05:55 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 101.
Audiostream: Layer: 2  BRate: 192 kb/s  Freq: 48.0 kHz
Videostream: ASPECT: 4:3  Size = 544x480  FRate: 29.97 fps  BRate: 15.00 Mbit/s
2004-10-10 16:05:59 DVB#0 Got PIDs from Database
2004-10-10 16:05:59 DVB#0 DiSEqC 1.0 Switch - Port 3
2004-10-10 16:05:59 DVB#0 DiSEqC Sending 1.0 Command: e0 10 38 ff
2004-10-10 16:06:00 DVB#0 WARNING - Status: NO LOCK!
2004-10-10 16:06:00 DVB#0 WARNING - Status: CARRIER | SIGNAL | NO LOCK!
2004-10-10 16:06:00 DVB#0 Signal Locked. Waiting on PIDS
2004-10-10 16:06:00 SIParser: Tuned to TransportID: 6
2004-10-10 16:06:00 SIParser: NIT Present on this transport on PID 16
2004-10-10 16:06:00 SIParser: Services on this Transport: 131 143 174 189 205
213 214 215 226 301 302 318 847 885 944 9844
2004-10-10 16:06:00 DVB#0 Using VideoPID = 5922 AudioPID = 5923
2004-10-10 16:06:00 DVB#0 Service is FTA
2004-10-10 16:06:00 DVB#0 AutoPID Complete - PAT/PMT Loaded for service
2004-10-10 16:06:00 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 213.
Videostream: ASPECT: 4:3  Size = 544x480  FRate: 29.97 fps  BRate: 15.00 Mbit/s
Audiostream: Layer: 2  BRate: 192 kb/s  Freq: 48.0 kHz
2004-10-10 16:06:10 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2004-10-10 16:06:10 Closing DVB recorder




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