[mythtv-users] ,24 Combined EIT and XML channel listing source

[Robert McNamara]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:31 PM, James Courtier-Dutton
<james.dutton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I cannot find the settings for passive.
> I also do not understand why you could not do both together.
> I.e. If tuned to a channel, say watching live tv or recording, passive
> scan the current MUX.
> If idle, use EIT scanning.

It's sort of a case of nuclear settings proliferation that we're
trying to slowly beat back.  There are LOTS of settings that make
modern users/developers say "Huh?" because often to work around a tiny
bug someone in the past took a shortcut and added a setting to account
for some fringe case rather than solving the root issue.  We're
working on it.  Also potentially of note, I know Janne had planned to
rework EIT entirely and I suspect that part of that would involve
implementing a more sane behavior across the board.

Stuart A might have a better idea of how to configure this properly.
I've been careful to only give you information that I'm more or less
sure about, and I've poked at the EIT code a bit, but I don't want to
present myself as an expert.  We do definitely have Passive and Active
EIT-- TTBOMK both settings are in mythtv-setup *somewhere* but I can't
point to exactly where (though a grep of the libmythtv source for the
terms "active" and "passive" should track that down in short order).
I believe eitscanner.cpp/h has startup modes for both active and
passive scans.

Robert