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

Ciaran ciaranj at gmail.com
Mon Oct 11 06:29:17 UTC 2004


This will be awesome, how does it handle the (bbc three for example)
case when both the audio + video pid is returned as 0, how long's the
timeout ? Could this stop the frontend hangs I experience in this case
?
- ciaran



On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 16:26:20 -0400, Taylor Jacob <rtjacob at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > 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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