[mythtv-users] DVB time-exclusive services

[Nick Craig-Wood]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:26:20PM +0100, Chris Birkinshaw wrote:
> In the UK we have a few timex-ed services - they share an encoder at the coding and multiplexing
> stage and share PIDs. However the service ID is different and at the timex time the SI tables are
> re-written to reference the finishing service as off air and the starting service as on air. e.g.
> at 6pm UKTV Brightideas goes off air and FTN comes on air.
> 
> The problem is that in mythtv if you accidentally tune to one of these off-air services when
> channel hopping the frontend freezes and it is impossible to tune to another channel. The only fix
> is to restart the backend and hope it retunes to another channel, though some times I need to
> schedule a recording on another channel to effect a change and
> successful retune.

Yes I noticed this (with BBC3/CBeebies BBC4/CBBC (or possibly the
other way round))!  My fix was to make sure the PIDs for the service
are in the database.  This means that when you tune to FTN at the
wrong time you'll actually see UKTV Bright Ideas but it doesn't lock
up.

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Nick Craig-Wood
ncw1 at axis.demon.co.uk