[vdr] Re: VDR 1.3.9 changing transponder data

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Javier Marcet wrote:
> 
> * Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> [040601 22:23]:
> 
> >> The frequencies of all my BBC channels (I'm in North Wales in the UK)
> >> get changed to something which is not broadcast on any nearby
> >> transmitter:
> 
> >> Jun  1 20:35:21 tv vdr[8766]: changing transponder data of channel 1
> >> from T:706000:0:1:0:3:0:0:0 to T:546000000:0:1:0:3:3:0:0
> >> ...
> >> This may well be the fault of the transmitted data but is there anyway I
> >> can stop VDR from changing the frequency of an existing channels.conf
> >> entry?
> 
> >You can control this with "Setup/DVB/Update channels".
> >Set it to "add new channels" or below. The default "add new transponders"
> >also changes transponders settings.
> 
> Yeah, but this is still a global setting, and detecting new transponders
> is still useful...

He asked for "anyway I can stop VDR from changing the frequency...".
This is a way to do this ;-)

> >There may well be still a problem with detecting transponder settings
> >in DVB-T, because the NIT sometimes contains data from transponders
> >not broadcast at that particular location.
> 
> I do have a problem with two channels on Hispasat 30.0W.
> 
> SKY News:11851:hC34:S30.0W:27500:4208:4209=eng:0:1800,1801,18FF:23:54:38:0
> TVE INTERNACIONAL:11851:hC34:S30.0W:27500:2201:2211=esl:0:0:21:54:38:0
> 
> The above two channels' transponder is often changed to 12091 with no
> reason, leading to no channel received. This have been the cause of some
> lost recordings in the past.
> However, given it only happens with that transponder, it may well be
> again the transmitted information about transponders being erroneous.
> Yet, in case that's the problem, who can one claim to?

Maybe you should contact your provider and tell them about this.
Might be a wrong setup in their transpoder data.

Otherwise you could check the data VDR processes to see whether it does
something wrong.

Klaus