[mythtv] qam scanning and myth svn not picking up 0x1ffb pid

[Michael Freeman]

comcast is sending out an empty CVCT on those stations.  so myth isn't
noticing anything.
is that legal?

if not, how can i get through the crap to someone who would have a vague
idea of what the hell i was saying (e.g. a true support *engineer*)?

On 1/14/06, Michael Freeman <mlfreeman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> as far as i can tell, the names are located in the PMT, but not in the
> CVCT.
>
> On 1/13/06, Michael Freeman <mlfreeman at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > i think something is malformed or complying with a cable-only spec.
> > other utilities can see 0x1ffb but can't pluck info from it either.
> > time to read some specs to see what the heck is going on.
> >
> >
> > if you want to look around your tuner, try using dvbtraffic / dvbsnoop /
> > azap to see what you can find.
> >
> > On 1/13/06, Tom E. Craddock Jr. < sigtom at sigtom.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Michael Freeman wrote:
> > > > i recently noticed that comcast in my area is sending a seemingly
> > > > standard-compliant PID on the physical channels that carried local
> > > > digital stations.
> > > > pid 0x1ffb is defined in a couple of spec documents as the pid
> > > carrying
> > > > the info about the channels in the mpeg2 transport stream...yet myth
> > > has
> > > > no idea it happens to exist.
> > > > can anyone advise me on how to turn on some debugging for this? i'd
> > > > really like to try and make myth get the info out of here.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > How did you 'notice' that Comcast was doing this?  Did a scan with
> > > tzap/azap or some like other tool? Id like to test to see if my cable
> > > co
> > > (brighthouse in tampa, fl) is doing this, as Ive had some difficulty
> > > getting all my local HD channels comming in over cable working with
> > > the
> > > HD3000. Ive been getting alot of PID not set msgs scrolling in the
> > > logs
> > > and want to fig this out (running SVN 8586)
> > >
> > >
> > > Tom
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