[mythtv] DVB - One bad channel

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Thu Sep 29 22:03:43 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 22:23 +0100, Mark wrote:
> I have one channel (Channel 4, serviceID 1803) which sometimes will not 
> tune, the PMT creation fails as it doesn't manage to find a matching PMT.
> More precisely, I think it fails to find audio and video streams, only a 
> data stream.
> 
> This is a (channel,record) log of a successful tune to this channel, 
> followed by a tune to a normal channel (Chan5) and a failed retune back 
> to channel 4.
> 
> http://irishmark.co.uk/fail-chan-4.txt

It's a bug, the signal monitor is assuming that there is
only one PMT per pid and isn't checking the program number.
This is usually true, but the MPEG spec allows multiple 
PMT's per pid, and your transmitter sends all their PMT's
on the same pid.

I'll fix this tonight.

-- Daniel




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