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

[Karl Dietz]

On 30.10.2012 17:15, Nick Morrott wrote:
> 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.

Might be easiest to take a peek at the multiplexes PAT, services
PMT/SDT with dvbsnoop. Over here the firmware update channels have the
name of the manufacturer as service name which is a dead giveaway.
If its something else we can at least guess from the announced service
type what else it might be.

Regards,
Karl