[mythtv-users] Guidance for phase 9

[Tom Dexter]

On 8/18/19, Klaas de Waal <klaas.de.waal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What would
>> probably solve all of this would be if the scan could have an option
>> (at least for ATSC) to always update existing channels based purely on
>> a match of ATSC major and minor numbers.
>>
> I think this is feasible but I do need a volunteer in ATSC country to
> risk his database in testing this.
> First implementation would be a patch against today's master so you
> need then  to get the latest master, apply the patch, and build.
> Also, to test this you would need to modify your database with SQL so
> that a scan of today's signal will make it correct again.
> This is then equivalent of what would happen in a scan after the channel
> repack.
>
> Cheers,
> Klaas.
>
> Klaas.

That's certainly good news. Unfortunately I wouldn't be able to assist
with that testing for several reasons...most notably, I had to
downgrade from 30.0 back to 29.1 because of some unresolved h264
issues (which appear to be specific to 32 bit systems).

Tom