[mythtv] Re: State of DVB ATSC

[John Patrick Poet]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Taylor Jacob wrote:

> Quoting John Patrick Poet <john at BlueSkyTours.com>:
>
> > This last weekend, I turned my frontend into a slave backend, and installed
> > my old HD-2000 card.  I decided to use the DVB drivers because I wanted to
> > use the 2.6.11 kernel.
> >
> > Everything went real smooth, but I ended up with "duplicate" channels.
> > Zap2it returns the channel callsigns one way, the the DVD scan returned them
> > slightly different:
>
> Yes thats still the case for now..
>
> > KOBDT vs. KOB-DT
> > KRQEDT vs KRQE-DT
> > KNMEDT vs KNME-HD
>
> With these did the major and minor numbers match?  I am trying to decide how I
> want to do handle the fuzzy name matching in mythfilldatabase.. I haven't
> investigated my local channels on zap2it for a while, so I don't know how bad
> the data is for OTA HD there or not..


Sorry, I did not think to look.


> > I went into mysql and updated the information in the zap2it channel entries
> > to contain the information that the DVD driver needs.  I then deleted all
> > the channels that the DVD scan generated.  Everything is now working
> > beautifully.
>
> Good..
>
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > >
> > > >>* Does recording capture PCR on channels where it's on a separate PID?
> > > > blame it at this point is mpegts.c..  If you do i'd love to get you to do
> > > > testing..
> > > I do not.  John Poet does, or did at one point.
> > I actually forgot to test that channel, after getting the DVD driver working
> > with the HD-2000 card.  Taylor, if you want to what I have to deal with, I
> > talk about it here:
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/104641
>
> There is no reference to PCR PIDs being seperate from teh Video PID in that
> thread.. That seems to only cover a major/minor channel numbering issue that
> doesn't affect the DVB drivers database layout..
>
> Taylor


Good.  I will try tuning that problem channel when I get home just in case
it does reveal any problems.


John