[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commit: r7549 by danielk

Stuart Auchterlonie stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Mon Oct 24 09:04:42 UTC 2005


On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 08:24:07AM -0400, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 10:08 +0100, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:41:21PM +0000, mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org wrote:
> 
> > > also deletes multiplexes and not just
> > > channels when "Delete" is selected for how to treat existing
> > > channels.
> > The problem with that is you can no longer delete your channels
> > and do a scan by existing transports, which saves a lot of time.
> You were using the full scan to delete channels?
> Wouldn't it make more sense to add a "delete" buttons to the
> existing transport scans that provide this functionality?

I may have mis-interpreted where your functionality lies.
I'd used the delete button you recently put in to delete the
channels and then rescanned the transports.

> 
> BTW I added this because I re-purposed a DVB HDTV source as a
> V4L HDTV source and used the delete button with the rescan, 
> but I couldn't tune to any of the channels... This is because
> the DVB drivers use the center frequency to tune, while the V4L
> drivers use the visual carrier frequency to tune, and the
> scan was reusing the old transports. When I thought about it,
> it is obvious that users expect a "Full Scan" that "Deletes" 
> channels to be able to make a broken source work. If they were
> doing a "Full Scan" on a fully working source they would probably
> use the default "Minimal Updates", or at most "Rename to match".
> 

Yes that is the behaviour a full scan should have.


Stuart


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