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

[Mark Greenwood]

On 26 Oct 2012, at 16:12, Mike Perkins wrote:

> 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.

Not shopping like QVC, but sort of text-only interactive stuff. They're popping up everywhere. I may be wrong, but I have things like 'Racing UK' that's basically a betting shop (so I'm told) and a few others.

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> 
> Mike Perkins
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