[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1485: version 9313 won't return human readable channel names

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Fri Mar 10 15:21:49 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 15:17 +0000, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> It also adds unnecessary pids. (IMHO)
> It gets the PAT, and then adds the pid for every program listed in the
> PAT, which I don't think is required?
> For DVB we need the program number (which we get from the PAT) and the
> channel mappings which we get from the SDT.
> We only need the PMT when we actually want to watch it.

We add this so that we can insert one of "crazy" channels if we never
see an SDT or VCT. If we do see DVB or ATSC tables we ignore this info.

When we don't see DVB or ATSC tables, the PMT tells us about whether
the stream has audio and video so we can respect the TV/Radio only
scan params.

-- Daniel



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