[mythtv] Re: mythtv commits (improperly dropping DVB channels)

[John Pullan]

On 09/06/05, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
>   On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 16:16 +0100, John Pullan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 08:10 -0700, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
> > > I'm still seeing this problem in current CVS, which is making it harder for
> > > me to debug other issues I'm seeing there (namely, I can no longer skip
> > > forward or get length info in SD shows that have been transcoded recently).
> > >
> > > An option to turn off the automatic updating of channels would work for me
> > > until we can work out keeping the xmltvid in sync with the channels.
> > <snip>
> >
> > In tv_rec.cpp you could try commenting out lines 104,105 the creation of
> > the SIScan object and associated thread. (WARNING one by inspection)
> > --
> 
> I just had this happen to me.  One of my digital channels just added a
> sub-channel.  The SIScan saw this and for some reason decided the
> right thing to do, was to remove the primary channel from my database.
>  I, therefore, did not get a couple of "record on this channel" shows
> recorded.
> 
> I have commented out those two lines and recompiled my backend.
> Hopefully this will keep that problem from happening to me again.
> 
> Thanks John Pullan.
> 
> John
(Sigh) really are going to have to fix this aren't we.

-- 
John