[mythtv-users] Identifying DVB radio channels

[Mike Holden]

Oliver Maunder wrote:
> Does MythTV differentiate between TV and radio channels on DVB systems?
> I've
> had a look in the database and can't see anything obvious.
>
> I'm writing a script to add certain recordings to a podcast and I want to
> identify radio recordings and convert them to mp3.
>
> In the UK all the Freeview radio stations seems to have a channel number
> in
> the 7xx range so they're easy enough to identify but it would feel cleaner
> if I could get that information from the database.

That's the way I run it. All my Freeview channels have a chanid in the
range 4700-4799 (note that's chanid, not channum). I have a script that
runs overnight and picks up all programs in that chanid range and converts
them to mp3 if the file doesn't already exist, using the sample script
dvbradioexport.pl

I then sync that directory with my mp3 player.

I don't believe there's anything in the database, because as far as
Freeview is concerned, all it is doing is shipping containers of data
along a frequency. It doesn't differentiate between data with video and
data without video.
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