[mythtv-users] EIT fails in some channels

[Roger Siddons]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 01:46:05 -0000, A. F. Cano <afc at shibaya.lonestar.org>  
wrote:

> Someone mentioned in another thread to use "active EIT scan" and
> "EIT scan only" (no other source of programming) as 2 sources will
> corrupt the database entries.  I'm sure I did the latter and I'm
> pretty sure the former is set as I have data on shopping channels
> that I never watch/tune, but that also goes out regularly.  I don't
> remember a check-mark-type setting (and I really looked) for
> "active EIT scan", I only remember a setting for a period of time
> after which EIT data would be collected after recordings finish,
> 60 I think.  I didn't touch it.
>

Passive scanning will pick up EIT for all channels on the multiplex, so  
maybe you recorded from a companion channel for it to pick up the shopping  
stuff.

mythtv-setup/Capture Cards/<tuner>/Recording Options/"Use DVB card for  
active EIT scan" is the checkbox you're looking for.

You can verify Active scanning by turning EIT logging on;

mythbackend --setverbose eit

and you should see messages such as:

mythbackend[3835]: I TVRecEvent eitscanner.cpp:269 (StartActiveScan)  
EITScanner (10): StartActiveScan called with 5 multiplexes