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

[Nick Morrott]

On 26 October 2012 14:48, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> 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'm wondering if this might be a data service broadcast to deliver
firmware/software updates to supported consumer Freeview STBs/PVRs? I
saw the same channel after a recent scan, but did not add it.

Cheers,
Nick