[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf updates for Australia

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

Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:20:01AM +1100, Peter Urbanec wrote:
> > Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > >Peter, your Melbourne data is quite old.
> > >The frequency for SBS changed 2-3 months ago from 536.5 MHz to 536.625
> > >MHz. The PIDs for channel 9 changed about 1 month ago.
> >
> > Thanks for the updates. As you can appreciate, keeping these configs up
> > to date in Australia is not easy. The broadcasters keep on changing the
> > setup with an alarming frequency, especially the channel names and PIDs.
> > Rescanning needs to be done by local residents - since I can't exactly
> > point my antenna at a transmitter 1,000km away :-)
> 
> Peter,
> 
> That makes sense. (Sorry, I came off too negative in the quote above.)
> 
> Channel 9 seems to enjoy changing their pids regularly. I don't
> understand why they would bother but it's happened a couple of times
> recently. I think that ideally user software would not store the pids
> but perhaps the service IDs and locate the pids by doing a scan
> themselves. That's possibly too slow to do on every channel change but
> the results could be cached for a limited period etc. I think I read
> that there is some work going into MythTV to do this.

The VDR developer version does exactly that. PID changes are detected and
applied fully automatically.

Klaus


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