[mythtv] DVB tuning broken in current SVN

Stuart Auchterlonie stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Thu Oct 6 21:33:18 UTC 2005


On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:56:39PM -0400, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 21:16 +0100, Ian Caulfield wrote:
> > 
> > Looking at that patch, it seems that the problem Mark was having
> > could 
> > have been due to the last two parameters of SetVersionPMT being 
> > reversed...
> 
> Could have been, they weren't in the logical order.
> 
> But it turns out we shouldn't have been using the PID at 
> all for PMT's, the MPEG program number is unique all by
> its lonesome.
> 

Plus the PIDs aren't unique.

In the UK different channels, mainly the BBC channels, share
their DSMCC pids. So for a given channel there can be 6 data
PIDs, 5 of which are shared amongst other channels on the mux.


Stuart



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