[vdr] Re: VDR 1.2.0, Autopid and cable scan

[Olivier Jacques <vdr@olivierjacques.com>]

Quoting Andreas Schultz <aschultz@warp10.net>:
> > 2) The channel scan :
> > My cable provider use the satellite feeds the operator transpose the
> > channels from QSPK to QAM but don't transpose anything else. When I
> > lauch a scan, the plugins try to scan some stellite frequencies.
> > A while ago, I made a full scan using dvbscan/dvbtune and I discover
> > that the operator doesn't touch the nit so A lot of information is
> > useless because I get satellite frequencies/SR.
> >  - Is it possible to force the scanner plugin to scan a given frequency
> > without using the fake NIT information (Freq/SR) ?
> 
> I can't see how this could be achived sanely at the moment. You should 
> probably contact you provider and complain about this. Including a NIT that
> 
> contains wrong/non existing frequencies violates the standard.
> 
> But there is a workarround. If you know _all_ frequencies, you could create a

Sometimes ago, a similar "issue" was posted on the DVB-mailing list for a DVB-T 
provider:
http://www.linuxtv.org:81/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2003/05-2003/msg00236.html

Can it be that this cable provider sets also the "other_frequency_flag" in the 
NIT in the same way? And, quoting "Immo Benjes":

> So the scan program has to check whether the current frequency 
> is the same as the frequency given in the NIT. If not it 
> has to check the frequencies given in the frequency_list_descriptor.

Andreas, how can we find this out?


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