[vdr] Re: Corruption of channels.conf

[Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk>]

In <42093A3D.7020700@cadsoft.de>, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> >On Tuesday 08 February 2005 19:01, Tony Houghton wrote:
> >
> >>I've set EPGScanTimeout and UpdateChannels to 0 and even made
> >>/var/lib/vdr/channels.conf read-only and owned by root, but it still
> >>changes it. Would a ridiculously high value for EPGScanTimeout help?
> 
> Why not simply turn off updating channels in VDR's setup? ;-)

I thought I did with UpdateChannels=0. I'm sure that's what it said in
the file after I set "Update channels" to "Off" in the menu, and 0
usually means off...

> Of course, finding out what actually causes the trouble would be
> a good idea.
> 
> If you align the two channel definitions...
> 
> BBC ONE:489833:I999B8C34D34M16  T2G32Y0:T:27500:600:601,602:0:0:4163:0:0:0
> BBC ONE:489833:      C34D34M16B8T2G32Y0:T:27500:600:601,602:0:0:4163:0:0:0
> 
> ...you can see that the _only_ difference is that the first one has an 
> additional
> I999, which means "INVERSION_AUTO", which also happens to be the default.
> And since the second definition doesn't contain I999, the default will
> just be the same, so I can't really see why these two lines would behave
> any different... (the sequence of the B8 parameters doesn't matter).

I think it also creates some duplicate channels. And sometimes the
frequency is in Hz, sometimes in KHz, which another person suggested
might be why it's creating duplicates. Should I try using Hz throughout?
I'll probably have to patch scan for that.

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