[mythtv-users] UK - noticed mpeg channel on scanning

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Fri Oct 26 15:12:59 UTC 2012


On 26/10/12 14:56, Mark Greenwood wrote:
>
> On 26 Oct 2012, at 14:48, Mike Perkins wrote:
>
>> Having just started rescanning my channels after a couple of failed
>> recordings (I deliberately left the job as long as I could!) I have
>> discovered an extra channel. I remember noticing this previously but was
>> too busy to investigate then.
>>
>> This is a channel on the mux called variously ArqB or COM6 and it is the
>> sole MPEG channel found during the scan - all the others being DVB-T or
>> DVB-T2. It does not occur on any other mux so is unlikely to be, e.g. EIT
>> information (but I'd be delighted to be proved wrong).
>>
>> Does anyone have the faintest idea what this is, and if myth can make use
>> of it?
>
> I have a few of these, comparing them to what my TV picks up I think they're
> the 'Interactive' channels. This usually means 'shopping'. I don't know if
> myth can use them.
>
Are you sure? I have shopping channels as well and they're all DVB-T. This is 
singular and something quite different. I can't record off it or anything, 
though doubtless some dvb-tools utility would give me something.

-- 

Mike Perkins



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