[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1866: DVB Scanning - Remaining Issues

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 15:13 +0000, MythTV wrote:
>>     
>>> #1866: DVB Scanning - Remaining Issues
>>> Comment(by rudy at grumpydevil.homelinux.org):
>>>  Will you also take into account the following situation?
>>>  - DVB-C
>>>       
>> <snip>
>>
>> If you are asking about the scanning branch, then no. I'm
>> only trying to break up the channel scanning and the channel
>> insertion at the moment. This will allow me to resolve a
>> lot of the outstanding channel scanning tickets. But DVB-C
>> is not something I'll be working on, other than trying not
>> to break existing functionality. After addressing the current
>> tickets I may make some improvements to DVB-S scanning, but
>> it sounds like your cable provider breaks the DVB standards
>> pretty badly and it isn't clear to me how exactly you would
>> detect this condition and resolve it.
>>
>> FYI Stuart A. may have a fix in mind for your situation that
>> I'm not aware of. This issue has been discussed before.
>>
>>     
>
> Essentially we need to reimplement stuff that was previously
> switched via the dtv_privatetypes. We carried across all the
> EIT fixups, but the other things that were specified in there
> all relate to non-conformances of various providers to the DVB
> spec.
>
> I'm expecting that we will have to implement switching in the
> same sort of way that we've done the EIT fixup, keyed primarily
> on the netid found in the broadcast stream.
>
> That's what i was trying to encapsulate when putting together
> a list of current non conformances that are "in the wild"
>
>
> Stuart
>
>   
If you need info from the network, tell me what to capture and i'll put 
it on FTP.

Cheers,

Rudy