[mythtv-users] BBC THREE/FOUR

[Paul Woodward]

At one stage I had the radio working by setting the video pid to that of another channel on the same multiplex - it kept myth happy!

Paul

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> Malcolm Smith wrote:
> > Simon,
> >
> > Although I agree with point about the loops and the general behaviour of
> > the DVB code (and feel free to fix!), I think your problem is slightly
> > different.
> >
> [snip]
> 
> > If you look carefully the video and audio pids are 0 when it is off the
> > air. When did you run scan?
> 
> Yes that's a good one, I fell for that one the first time I installed,
> was only when I reran scan in the evening it finaly dawned on me how the
> two channels where being broadcast (or not as the case maybe).
> >
> > I would check your pids. I've been working with Daniel on a script that
> > takes the output of scan and loads up the various tables. I could let
> > you have a copy. (It's not complete yet).
> 
> That would be the most obvious solution.. Might I suggest for a future
> direction that the mythtv setup program be enhanced to allow a external
> tuner application to be run to do this.  That way it should be possible
> to automate the process for other DVB types and even analog if somebody
> knocks together the scan/detection app.
> 
> > Back to the original problem:
> >
> > Ideally the backend should respond indicating no program data is available.
> > It should also cope with different apids and the vpid/apid not being
> > present (e.g. no vpid = radio station)
> 
> Yes I'd noticed that mythtv wasn't hot with the radio channels.. I'm not
> promising anything as my forte is real-time C code/distributed systems.
> So I suspect my milage may vary when I try to hack Video based/C++. So
> we will see..(Said the blind man)..
> 
> Simon
> 
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